Nicaraguan Perspectives

In the light of government shut down of several universities, and the statement by a Sandinista deputy stating the UCA was not in compliance with the Ministry of the interior´s (MIGOB)…

Blow to higher education: Ortega and Murillo bury academic freedom By Divergentes, Feb 4, 2022 Since December 2021 the dictatorship has cancelled the operational permits of 6 universities in Nicaragua,…

Ana Margarita Vijil: “I declare myself to be a defender of Human Rights” and wrote under her signature in the sentencing “Political prisoner”. In La Prensa, Feb 2, 2022 The…

Starting on January 25, 2022,  with the statement originally from 27 relatives of political prisoners, a number of organizations have issued calls for the release of political prisoners as a…

The National University Council (CNU) by Constitutional mandate is supposed to provide 6% of total national budget to higher education. In 2018 the UCA´s share was 251.8 million córdobas. This…

The situation indigenous Mayangna communities face is an example of the way the current government promotes a public image of solidarity: while this government did provide legal title to indigenous…

Xenia Barahona, the sister of the Suyen Barahona, the president of the political party UNAMOS who now has spent 219 days in jail and isolation, wrote this piece providing background on…

On January 10, 2022 Ortega was inaugurated for the fourth straight time, after elections rejected as fraudulent by most countries in the world. The same day the United States, European…

On December 30, 2021 "Pinita" Gurdian de Vijil took the risk of appearing in a press conference to denounce an incident where a drunken high level Police official entered into…

Ortega´s grudge against civil society organizations and associations. Since 2018 there are now 67 closed down. La Prensa, Dec 28, 2021 La Prensa presents an accounting of the NGOs and…