Nicaraguan Perspectives

Interview of Fidel Narváez: “our struggles cannot be divided by borders”

October 13, 2018

This interview of a student leader now in exile appeared in an online magazine started by a recently formed organization composed mainly of socialist parties in Europe and Latin America..…

Blue and White National Unity Manifesto

October 5, 2018

A significant announcement was made yesterday of a coalition of some 43 civil society organizations that includes university students, peasants, human rights activists, business sector, feminists, politicians and other movements,…

Carlos Mikel Espinoza: “I was an accomplice of the Ortega family”

October 2, 2018

This interview in Sunday´s supplement to La Prensa provides inside confirmation of a number of incidents that Nicaraguans themselves noted if they watched the same events on both government and…

“We are Building Nicaragua” Program

September 27, 2018

An important issue in the current crisis in Nicaragua is the question of what would Nicaragua look like should Ortega leave, as the opposition demands. In recent weeks some important…

Nicaragua and the Trap of a Civil War

September 20, 2018

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

September 20, 2018

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

September 12, 2018

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

September 6, 2018

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

September 1, 2018

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

August 29, 2018

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…