Nicaraguan Perspectives

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…

Ortega´s dilemma or how not to bite his tongue while talking against Somoza By Fabián Medina in La Prensa, July 22, 2021 History It is getting harder and harder for…

The author of this article is a well known Nicaraguan poet who had a lot of contact with the current Vice president Rosario Murillo in artistic circles during the 1980s,…

Many analysts claim that Ortega´s recent arrests of 21 opposition leaders and candidates was to provide him with  bargaining chips for future negotiations with the United States. This article places…

“We are trying criminals”: Ortega will not take “one step back” hunting down opponents By Divergentes, June 23, 2021   “We are not putting politicians on trial; we are not…

The girl with the short hair By Sergio Ramírez, In Revista Proceso June 26, 2021 In the face of the critical situation that Nicaragua is currently experiencing and after the…

The government has not released any information to families of those recently picked up. This article focuses on those responsible for the repression. The intellectual authors of the massacre of…