"Do you ever think about things that you do think about?" (Inherit the Wind)
On Mothers’ Day 2018, thousands of Nicaraguans flocked to Managua, to participate in the “Madre de Todas las Marchas”, a protest march in solidarity with the Mothers of April. Un impresionante video aéreo de la marcha en honor a las…
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The Ortega-Murillo government has excarcerated fifty political prisoners, in a symbolic move intended to mark Mothers’ Day. The excarcerated prisoners were taken to their homes, using vehicles belonging to the penitentiary system, as is customary. On Monday, the Ortega-Murillo negotiation…
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The Ortega-Murillo administration scored another legislative “win” this Wednesday, when the Sandinista majority at the National Assembly approved the government’s Ley de Atención Integral a Víctimas. This new law presents the government’s plan to offer services and support to victims “of the…
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Bismarck Martínez was a life-long Sandinista sympathizer. He was abducted by unknown and unidentifiable assailants who tortured him. Yesterday, the Vice President of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, announced his body had presumably been found in Jinotepe. The remains “were found near…
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The Asociación Madres de Abril (AMA) held a press conference on Tuesday morning, to reject plans for an amnesty law. The organization demanded justice for their children, killed by the Ortega-Murillo police and/or paramilitary sympathizers in the past year. AMA…
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The Ortega-Murillo negotiation team read its employer’s latest press statement. It includes a salute to Nicaraguan mothers, as well as pledges, reassurances, inflammatory language, and thinly-veiled threats to pull out definitively from negotiations, by arguing that the Alianza Cívica lacks…
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The ink on the government’s “Action Plan” evaporated from the paper it was printed on Sunday morning, when the Ortega-Murillo police deployed on Carretera Masaya, in response to the March for Freedom: Eddy Montes Presente! Unidad Nacional Azul y Blanco called…
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Cities and towns throughout Nicaragua appeared deserted on Thursday, as many Nicaraguans joined in a 24-hour work stoppage and consumer strike. According to José Adán Aguerri, of the Alianza Cívica, between 60 and 70% of Nicaraguan businesses closed their doors…
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The Alianza Cívica por la Justicia y la Democracia issued a call to arms, when it invited Nicaraguans to join a national work stoppage and purchasing strike for 24-hours. The strike began at midnight, May 23rd, and it has involved…
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The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (PC-OAS) approved a resolution on the situation in Nicaragua. This is the third time that the PC-OAS has issued a resolution on the matter. The draft was read into the record…
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