The 2021 Economy: Slight improvement, Dark Horizons
This overview of the economy for 2021 includes addressing an existing pact between Ortega and big capital, something that part of the opposition have complained about since April 2018. This…
Ten Reasons Why Experts Think That Ortega Practices Necropolitics
This article applies the concept of Necropolitics to the reality of Nicaragua. It does provide novel insights into the situation. Ten Reasons Why Experts Think That Ortega Practices Necropolitics By…
2021: Year of the Electoral Defeat of the Sandinista Dictatorship
On January 18th the Nicaraguan University Alliance (AUN), one of the student organizations that is part of the Civic Alliance for Justice and Peace, issued the following press release. In…
Suyen Barahona explains the reasons why the MRS gives up the name “Sandinista”
Suyen Barahona explains the reasons why the MRS gives up the name “Sandinista” In Confidencial, January 14, 2021 by Franklin Villavicencio The Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) has decided to do…
Nelson Lorío: “I regret having gone to work the day that they killed my son”
In spite of the key role young people played in the uprising of April 2018, and the number imprisoned time and again for their participation, their stories receive less press…
President Daniel Ortega on receiving Credential Letters from Ambassadors, Dec 17, 2020
This is part of a speech Daniel Ortega gave on Dec 17, 2020 in an event where he received the credentials of new ambassadors to Nicaragua. Given the current focus…
Nothing has happened here
Sergio Ramírez was Daniel Ortega´s Vice President through the 1980s and one of the founders of the Movement for Sandinista Renovation, but he was first known throughout the Spanish speaking…
LAW IN DEFENSE OF THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE TO INDEPENDENCE, SOVEREIGNTY AND SELF DETERMINATION FOR PEACE
This is the translation of a new law approved on Dec 21, 2020 , which is being interpreted by human rights organizations and the Secretary General of the OAS as…
MESSAGE TO THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY AND THE NICARAGUAN PEOPLE
This paid announcement appeared in La Prensa on Dec 22, 2020. Its translation follows. UCA Central American University MESSAGE TO THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY AND THE NICARAGUAN PEOPLE Cuts in…
The Attorney General´s Office: Crime Factory Against Nicaraguan Political Prisoners
There has been a flurry of activity from the Association of Mothers of Political Prisoners and other opposition groups around trying to promote a “Christmas without Political Prisoners”, something many…