The orders from Murillo, after the killing of Álvaro Conrado
This past week more internal documents from the Vice President were leaked to the press, showing her role in the directing the FSLN social media response to the horrific scenes…
Nicaragua: The Popular Insurrection and Its Prospects
It is customary at the end of the year or decade to do an assessment of the past. This article by an anonymous Nicaraguan author does a review of the…
Zayda Hernández: “If they do not hold a national strike the easy way, it will be done the hard way”
The crisis of April 2018 was led by students, but the frequency of their appearance in the media do not reflect their importance. This interview provides an analysis of the…
Yesterday and Today, Reflection December 2019, General Humberto Ortega
Daniel Ortega´s brother and chief strategist of the war against Somoza, and the founding general of the Sandinista Army, took out a full page ad in the La Prensa newspaper…
“If the Police enter, or I die, ring the bells”. The order of Fr. Edwin Román during the abduction of the Church of San Miguel
This article interviews the participants in the recent eight-day hunger strike for the release of political prisoners in the San Miguel Church in Masaya. In response to the strike, the…
The Two Catholic Churches of Nicaragua
A debate has emerged within Nicaragua, on social media and more traditional outlets, on the role of the Church currently. The most recent trigger was the guarded response of Cardinal…
The UCA, the heart of the university protest against the Ortega Murillo dictatorship in Nicaragua
The UCA, the heart of the university protest against the Ortega Murillo dictatorship in Nicaragua By José Adán Silva, La Prensa, November 24, 2019 [original Spanish] The UCA is considered…
The Catholic Church, on Daniel Ortega´s enemies list
In light of recent incidents were several parishes supporting mothers of political prisoners on hunger strikes were harassed and attacked by Sandinista supporters, the online news magazine nicaraguainvestiga did this…
Letter from Jesuit Provincials and Universities of Latin America and the Caribbean
Mothers of political prisoners have been holding a hunger strike in a parish in Masaya, and the parish has been besieged by riot police who have closed off access to…
What opposition, and what changes?
While the April 2018 uprising was largely student led, this fact can be easily missed in the media coverage. This article provides some student leader perspectives of the current situation…