Nicaraguan Perspectives

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…

They take 6% from the UCA: This has been the step by step vengeance of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship By DIVERGENTES, March 20, 2022 Since the April 2018 rebellion the repression…

This story should be seen as part of the reaction of Ortega to the public denouncement the day before of the Nicaraguan Ambassador to the OAS, Arturo McFields to the…

This is a translation of the statement the Nicaraguan Ambassador to the OAS Arturo McFields made to the Permanent Council where he denounced the Ortega regime and said that many within…

The Ortega regime eliminated another 25 NGOs in Nicaragua, adding to the already 107 eliminated  which included several universities. This recent batch includes Operation Smile, which does cleft lip and…

On International Women's day it seems especially appropriate to publish this translation of an article that focuses on what the Nicaraguan government has done to the Women´s Organization OYANKA in Jalapa as an…

On Feb 23 the trial of seven opposition leaders ended with a guilty verdict, after a series of violations of due process, starting with their arrest, the conditions of their…

Ortega revives confiscations as a State policy By Divergentes, Feb 23, 2022 The repression unleashed by the regime include an increase in expropriations at the hands of operators of Ortega…