Nicaraguan Perspectives

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…

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…