Nicaraguan Perspectives

President of the UCA. “This is a punishment for having critical thinking”

January 11, 2019

The UCA in these days received the news that the budget subsidy that they have received by constitutional mandate - like all universities that belong to the National University Council…

PUBLIC LETTER OF RESIGNATION AND DENUNCIATION

January 11, 2019

Rafael Solís, probably the Magistrate in the Supreme Court the closest to Ortega, resigned and released a public letter to social media the evening of January 10th. Solís was key…

New Year Message of Government of Nicaragua

January 9, 2019

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

January 6, 2019

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

January 5, 2019

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

December 26, 2018

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)

December 25, 2018

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…