Nicaraguan Perspectives

Second attempt to banish Mons. Álvarez fails: they send him back to La Modelo [prison] By DIVERGENTES July 5, 2023 The Bishop of Matagalpa is sent back to the La…

Regime is working on the eradication of the territorial structure of the Catholic Church By DIVERGENTES, June 27, 2023 An official spokesperson announced the intensification of the repression against “The…

The dictatorship has expelled and forced more than 40 religious sisters to leave the country By La Prensa, June 20, 2023 “Nicaragua has shattered all the limits that a civilized…

MINED pays teachers from parochial schools and tells them “the priests stole the money” In La Prensa, June 8, 2023 The lawyer Martha Patricia Molina denounced that the teachers “…

The silence of Cardinal Brenes in the face of the religious persecution is creating suspicions among the clergy By Alberto Miranda in DIVERGENTES, June 6, 2023 Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, the…

Earlier in the month the Nicaraguan government confiscated all the assets of the International Red Cross, and now the government is running that institution. It also cancelled the legal status…

The lack of unity among the Nicaraguan opposition, composed of very disparate sectors and visions, and now dispersed geographically, has been an issue identified as a key obstacle to the…

News about Mons. Álvarez from La Modelo: He is in isolation in El Infiernillo [little hell] By DIVERGENTES  May 16, 2023 After the US State Department presented their report on…

OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE OF NICARAGUA “The prophet is not silent. Tyrants do not have the last word.” Mons. Silvio Báez We, the representatives of Nicaraguan diaspora organizations, exiles,…

Mónica Baltodano was a commandante of the Revolution of 1979 and was a deputy for the Sandinista Front in the 1990s. She did not break with the Front when the…