Nicaragua and the Trap of a Civil War
Given the amount of deaths (322 according to UN and OAS Human Rights organizations), and the number of extrajudicial kidnappings and detentions- hundreds and ongoing - there are some that…
Nicaraguan Neurosurgeon Reveals Torture Cases He’s Attended
We generally only post translations that are not available elsewhere, but realizing that some readers also value our selection of documents, we are including a couple significant ones from the…
Open Letter to the Left from the Left: Nicaragua and the responsibility of the Left
This is a statement signed by hundreds of people from the left in Spain and Europe that criticizes the left that continues to support Ortega. Open Letter to the Left…
Ortega denies the repression and blames the US and Narcos for the crisis in Nicaragua
This interview by a Spanish News Agency (EFE) has received a lot of attention in that Daniel Ortega denies all responsibility for the hundreds of deaths, claims that the only…
Daniel Ortega´s speech on the commemoration of the Heroic Feat of Pancasán
Daniel Ortega gave this speech on August 29, 2018 for the gathering on the 51st Anniversary of the Heroic Feat of Pancasán. In the past there was no massive celebration…
The Land Takeovers Put Many into Checkmate, and They are Trying to Convince Pellas to Negotiate with Ortega
This article appeared on the nicaraguainvestiga.com website. The context is that the business sector for 11 years had been in an alliance with the Ortega government that provided them with…
Speech of Daniel Ortega on the 40th Anniversary of the Taking of the National Palace, August 23, 2018
This speech was given on the 40th anniversary of the taking of the National Palace . On Aug 22, 1978 the Rigoberto López Pérez Command of the Sandinista Front took…
“No one would like to have a murderer as the woman who gave you life”
This is an interview done this week of Zoilamérica Ortega Murillo, Rosario Murillo´s daughter, and Daniel Ortega´s step daughter. (She is mentioned by Pinita in the previous post). Here she…
Letter from a Christian in Nicaragua to a priest in Spain
The following is a letter written by Pinita Gurdian, a well known member of the Christians in the Revolution movement in the 80s, in response to a letter from a…
The left has to be re-invented, which is urgently facing new challenges in a new context
This article was published on the website nicaraguainvestiga.com on Aug 8, 2018. This young anonymous Nicaraguan addresses a debate among the international left that has come out to strongly defend…