Nicaraguan Perspectives

This joint work by Nicaragua Investiga and Connectas is a very important piece of investigative journalism that gives an initial glimpse into the rampant nepotism that permeates the government. As…

Sergio Ramírez, award winning novelist and Vice President under Daniel Ortega in the 1980, wrote this piece to describe the impact of the closings of all non Sandinista NGOs that the…

A significant political tremor was caused by the NY Times story May 6 of attempts by the Ortega regime to reach out to Biden to offer the release of political…

Dictatorship cancels 50 more civil society organizations By Divergentes, May 4, 2022 The Ortega-Murillo regime eliminated the legal status of 50 entities, for a total of 211 now closed down.…

In the final days of April relatives of political prisoners were finally able to visit their imprisoned loved ones again, and they released this statement of the abuses they were…

The paradoxical element of the April 2018 uprising is that many of those who participated were upstanding members of the Sandinista Front at the time, who participated in its different…

With the recent announcement of the elimination of the legal status of the Association for the Development of Solentiname founded by Ernesto Cardenal, Mónica Baltodano provides a brief history of Ernesto´s life…

April 18 marks the fourth anniversary of the uprising of the population against the Sandinista regime over initially the lack of response to forest fires, followed by the government reform…

Crisis within Sandinism? “The party is experiencing turmoil” In Divergentes, April 12, 2022 The recent desertions within the FSLN, added to the discontent of the historical former guerrillas over the…

On April 7th and Open Letter to the Government of Nicaragua was published, signed by over 400 people of faith in the United States, calling on the government to end…