Nicaraguan Perspectives

This interview of one of the principal Nicaraguan municipal experts provides perspective on the recent attacks against the Catholic Church and the upcoming municipal elections planned for November 2022. Silvio Prado:…

Rolando Álvarez, the rebellious bishop that irritates Ortega and Murillo By DIVERGENTES, May 24, 2022 He has become the most critical voice within the Church in Nicaragua. He has taken…

The National Assembly dominated by a Sandinista super majority passed a decree making May 30th, Mother´s Day in Nicaragua, a paid national holiday. The Association of Mothers of April immediately…

On Thursday May 19, 2022 Bishop Rolando Álvarez of the diocese of Matagalpa took shelter in a parish in Las Colinas, Managua, until the police harassment against him is lifted.…

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…