New Year Message of Government of Nicaragua
This end of the year speech by Daniel Ortega takes place in the context of the report issued earlier in the month [December 2018] by the GIEI that accused the government…
A Small But Big Difference
The author of this editorial ran as the Presidential Candidate for the MRS in the 2006 elections, and was a close collaborator of Pedro Joaquín Chamorro, the editor of La…
Nicaragua: Feminism as an exercise of autonomy and fight for freedom
This interview of María Teresa Blandón was done by an Argentinian feminist organization. María is one of the key feminist leaders in Central America, and for years has taught in…
Letter of Nicaraguan Government to OAS suspending mission of GIEI and MESENI
This is a very important document which presents the Nicaraguan government´s logic for the expulsion of the GIEI and MESENI of the IACHR. It reiterates a number of points made…
NICARAGUA: Report on the Violence Events between April 18 and May 30, 2018 By the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI)
One day before the OAS´s Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (known by their Spanish acronym GIEI) issued their report, they were expelled from Nicaragua by order of the government. This…
Bianca Jagger: “In Nicaragua an attack is happening against the press and human rights organizations”
Bianca Jagger: “In Nicaragua an attack is happening against the press and human rights organizations” Translated from BBC Mundo, Dec 17, 2018 [Spanish at: https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-46595823 ] Nicaragua is ending a…
Regime cancels and assaults NGOs
As of Thursday Dec 13, 2018 the government has cancelled the legal status of nine NGOs in Nicaragua, some of the most prominent in the country working on human rights,…
President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo at the Closing of the XVI Congress of the UNEN
This event received a lot of attention for several reasons: 1) Daniel gave awards to university student leaders who led protests in the past, but have opposed the current protests,…
Ortega-Murillo: Against the Ropes?
Oscar René Vargas is a well known political analyst, now in exile in Costa Rica after the government ordered his arrest in July. He joined the FSLN in 1967 and…
NICARAGUAN ARMY, SPECTATOR OR ACCOMPLICE?
This article, and a similar one by Cajina published in ENVÍO this month, respond to an important question about the role of the Nicaraguan Army vis a vis the current…