"Do you ever think about things that you do think about?" (Inherit the Wind)
On January 18, La Prensa published a blank front page, along with an editorial titled “Have you imagined what it is like to live without information?” The editors explained that after 20 weeks of waiting for Customs to clear a shipment of…
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On Monday, January 28, OrMu’s Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Ivan Acosta, presented a proposal to reform Nicaragua’s tax code to the National Assembly. Armed with a seizure-inducing powerpoint slide deck, Mr. Acosta informed the Assembly that the…
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In April of last year, the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship decided that it was time to “reform” Nicaraguan Social Security. The INSS, Nicaragua’s Social Security Administration, has teetered on the edge of bankruptcy for years. In 2017, the International Monetary Fund…
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Ana Gomes, Member of the European Parliament, recently returned from a fact-finding trip to Nicaragua. Gomes, as I noted in a prior post, documented the visit using her cellphone and then shared her impressions via Twitter. On January 28, Gomes…
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(El Chipote, 2 de Julio 2018. Image by Jorge Mejia Peralta) European Parlamentarian Jose Inacio Faria (Portugal) was a member of the delegation that visited Nicaragua for four days (Jan 23-26). Like his colleague, Ana Gomes, Mr. Faria has decided to share his…
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When a delegation from the European Parliament approached Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo (OrMu) for permission to visit Nicaragua, the two co-dictators said no because some of the members of the delegation had said uttered “threatening or disrespectful statements” against…
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I usually write all my news updates on Facebook, but this one is long and contains a Twitter thread, so it definitely warrants the blog treatment. COSEP DENIED PERMIT; HOSTS PRESS CONFERENCE. Cosep Nicaragua, AmCham Nicaragua, and FUNIDES sat…
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Denis Moncada, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua, speaks at the Special Meeting of the Permanent Council, January 11, 2019 Credit: Juan Manuel Herrera/OAS The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States took the first step towards the application…
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La Prensa ran a front page article titled “The Deported are Missing”. The piece, by Martha Vasquez draws on the reporting by Sonia Osorio, a journalist and editor for El Nuevo Herald. Osorio’s story covers a press conference, given by Central…
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On December 21, after being expelled from Nicaragua, the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI, by its Spanish acronym) presented its long-awaited report on the Nicaraguan crisis. GIEI concluded that the “The Government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo committed…
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