Nicaraguan Perspectives

The Sandinista dominated National Assembly elected a “new” Supreme Electoral Council on May 4th, which quickly set the calendar for the electoral process. That calendar required any electoral alliance to…

The Association of the Mothers of April (AMA) was formed to seek justice for their sons and daughters killed in the repression after April 2018. They put together a Museum…

In response to opposition claims of fraud in the last presidential elections in 2016, Daniel Ortega agreed to work with the OAS on a package of reforms. But after the…

La Prensa is doing a series of interviews of people who have declared their interest in running for President in November 2021. Arturo Cruz has an interesting background: his father,…

Orteguism has ten repressive laws and threatens more By Yader Luna In Confidencial, April 1, 2021 In less than 6 months, between September 2020 and January 2021, the National Assembly…

The author is past president of the Movement for Sandinista Renovation, an economist by training, and well connected both inside and outside the country. This article reflects and explains some…

Four women, four battles: this is how women are facing the crisis in Nicaragua By Nayira Valenzuela/Alejandra Padilla in Confidencial, March 8, 2021 On international women´s day, Nicaraguan women do…

This weekend  (Feb 27 &28m 2021) two opposition leaders announced their candidacy for the Presidential elections of Nov 2021, Juan Sebastian Chamorro, who until shortly was the Director of the…

There have been a number of interviews from people on the inside of the regime who left when the government began to fire on civilians: the Supreme Court judge Rafael…