Nicaraguan Perspectives

Anonymous Sources: repression instills self-censorship without precedent in Nicaragua By Divergentes, September 10, 2021 The repressive escalation of Ortega-Murillo against any voice that criticizes their dictatorship has caused the closing…

36 people were abducted by the State of Nicaragua since May 2021, mostly presidential candidates and opposition leaders. Often the State refused to provide information to their relatives about where…

The Seventh report of “Urnas Abiertas” [Open Ballat Boxes] was just released. They are a citizen electoral observation group composed of a multidisciplinary team of political and social science, communication…

Fabian Medina published a biography of Daniel Ortega in Spanish, and has been an editorial writer of La Prensa for some years. On Thursdays he shares general reflections on the…

Prohibition of NGOs: “In Nicaragua whoever raises their voice is completely at risk” In Deutsche Welle August 18, 2021 With the prohibition of 40 NGOs the government of Daniel Ortega…

On July 28, 2021 the dictatorship cancelled the legal status of 24 NGOs, including 15 medical associations in the midst of the pandemic. Then in mid August the government cancelled…

Sergio Ramirez, one of the most well know living Nicaraguan writers and Vice President of Nicaragua in the 1980s, one of the founders of the MRS in the 1990s, published…

This communication from Nicaraguans living in Europe is significant because it calls on international bodies to take a stand now on the illegitimacy of the current electoral process in Nicaragua,…

The government has announced investigations, and then abducted and jailed, nearly every person in the opposition who has announced their candidacy for the presidency in November 2021. Prior to that,…

Living under police harassment in Nicaragua By Divergentes July 15, 2021 A contender for the presidency arrested, an academic, a journalist, a priest and two activists tell their daily life…