Nicaraguan Perspectives

Municipal elections are scheduled in Nicaragua this Sunday Nov 6th, but they are taking place in a context which Urnas Abiertas summarizes as “political terror” , and where all gatherings…

This  perceptive analysis about the lack of unity among the Nicaraguan opposition and what is needed to achieve it was written by Zoilamerica Ortega Murillo, the first-born daughter of Rosario Murillo,…

The emails that confirm the political control of the FSLN over public employees In DIVERGENTES, Oct 13, 2022 A leak of emails from public institutions exposes the control that the…

UCA activates platform for sponsoring low income students, after suspension of budget appropriation La Prensa, October 5, 2022 After the reduction of the budget appropriation from the 6 percent mandated…

This opinion piece by exiled editor of La Prensa provides some common sense perspective to the worsening situation in Nicaragua. The last kicks of a drowning man By Fabian Medina,…

Imposition of candidates for mayors causes ill-will within the grassroots of the FSLN By DIVERGENTES, Sept 25, 2022 The fact of “handpicking” the mayor´s slate for the coming uncontested municipal…

In this editorial this editor of La Prensa now in exile uses the recent arrests of Sandinista followers, Chino Enoc and Humberto Pérez, to break through the official discourse to reveal…

Without God or Country: Political prisoners, religious persecution and “barbarism” in the dictatorship of Nicaragua. The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega showed emaciated faces of political prisoners to the cameras in…

The UCA is left without scholarships and launches an SOS to obtain funds for students By DIVERGENTES Sept 9, 2022 The house of studies communicated to subsidized students that it…

Voices of the South is a Latin American organization monitoring press freedom.This is the Executive Summary for their report for August 2022 where they document 72 cases of violations to…