Nicaraguan Perspectives

Professor Gabriel Putoy: “Commissioner Avellán hit me in the forehead with an AK 47”

July 3, 2019

Monimbó, Masaya has always been a Sandinista stronghold, so it was somewhat surprising when it was one of the neighborhoods that most strongly protested the government´s brutal response to the…

Social Inequality

July 3, 2019

By any reckoning, any resolution to the current crisis will still leave a very polarized society. In fact current government pronouncements fuel the polarization by continuing to refer to the…

“Sanctions are the only language that Ortega and Murillo understand”

June 21, 2019

This interview of the Director of Human Rights Watch was done on the release of their report on repression and torture in Nicaragua. It is significant because it came out…

Press Release of the Governmentof National Unity and Reconciliation Tuesday, June 18, 2019

June 18, 2019

The Nicaraguan Government with this press release states its position that it has fully with the prisoner release commitment it made in the negotiating table with the Civic Alliance Press…

Will Ortega be able to stop the international sanctions?

June 18, 2019

This article published yesterday on the author´s blog, lays out the importance of the events of the coming days for the immediate future of the country. June 18th is the…

Ortega Regime manipulates figures of political prisoners in order to not free all of them

May 23, 2019

A key agreement in the recent negotiation is the release of all political prisoners by June 18, 2019. One of the reasons why the Civic Alliance called for a National…

WORK PROGRAM OF GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL RECONCILIATION AND UNITY TO ESTABLISH STABILITY AND PEACE IN NICARAGUA

May 22, 2019

This was the response of the Foreign Ministry of Nicaragua to the action of the Permanent Council of the OAS yesterday, who approved a resolution calling for the liberation of…

Civic Alliance Press Release on Withdrawal from Negotiating Table and Call for National Strike

May 22, 2019

The killing of Eddy Montes has had several repercussions: 1) The majority of the business association have agreed on a National Strike for Thursday May 23, 2019, demanding that the…

Killing of Prisoner Eddy Montes

May 20, 2019

A major news story this week was the killing of Eddy Montes Praslín on May 16, 2019. He considered himself a political prisoner, as he was called to the police…

Update on the National Dialogue, May 8, 2019

May 9, 2019

The distance between the perspective of the two sides can be seen in their most recent press releases. The Government emphasizes the disruption in their economic program that benefitted the…