Nicaraguan Perspectives

As of this writing, Daniel Ortega´s regime has arrested the chief opposition candidates and principal leaders of the opposition. The subject of this article, Cristiana Chamorro, was the first to…

This is an interview of a former employee of the Ortega communications apparatus, who joined the unarmed uprising  after he realized the regime was killing civilians. It provides an inside…

Dominating recent news has been the lack of unity within the Nicaraguan opposition just months before the November elections. The FSLN dominated Supreme Electoral Council gave the opposition a very…

On May 20, 2021 the Nicaraguan Ministry of the Interior summoned the leading opposition candidate for the November 7, 2021 elections, Cristiana Chamorro, to the Ministry over charges of money…

This very important article explains what the government is doing to quietly get rid of civil society organizations that do not openly support the regime. Even NGOs who consider themselves…

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…