Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by JARQUÍN Mateo
45 years after Somoza’s flight, the country struggles to reckon with its past
45 years ago, the triumph of the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua took place. It was a critical moment in Latin America, constituting the first and last time an armed leftist group came to power in the region after (…)
, by O’DWYER Diana
On International Women’s Day, Friday 8th of March, voters in the Republic of Ireland delivered two of the largest defeats in history for referendums put forward by the government. The Family referendum, which proposed extending the constitutional definition of the family to include families (…)
, by BALTODANO Mónica, SANCHEZ Mariana
Mónica Baltodano was a guerrilla commander during the Sandinista revolution and leader of the Managua insurrection. She held positions of responsibility in the revolutionary government, notably in charge of the territories and municipal work. In 2007, Daniel Ortega returned to power as president (…)
, by SOS Nicaragua Europa, Petition / Sign-on Letter
The signatories to this petition welcome the nomination on September 20th 2023 of Dr Vilma Núñez de Escorcia and Bishop Rolando José Álvarez Lagos of Nicaragua for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought of the European Parliament.
We call on all Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), (…)
, by Jeunes anticapitalistes, LHOTELLIER David, RAMIREZ Katherine
In recent years, Daniel Ortega’s regime has continued its authoritarian escalation, ultimately betraying the ideals of the Sandinista revolution. As part of the youth camp of the Fourth International, Jeunes anticapitalistes (JAC - Belgium) spoke with Katherine Ramírez, a Nicaraguan exiled in (…)
, by Academics, teachers and university workers
August 21, 2023 -The cry of alarm of academics, teachers and university workers in the face of the new escalation of the offensive of the Ortega-Murillo regime against Nicaraguan universities. First signatories below.
Students protest the government takeover of the University of Central (…)
, by Denationalized Nicaraguans
In relation to the meeting of the Forum in Brasilia, from June 29 to July 2, 2023:
We, the signatories of this letter, participants of the struggle against the Somoza dictatorship and of an admired revolution, which awakened so much hope in the world; identified with the democratic ideals and (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Years ago, the famous Nicaraguan poet Giaconda Belli wrote,
¿Qué sos, Nicaragua
Para dolerme tanto?
What are you, Nicaragua
To hurt me so?
The lines seem particularly poignant and appropriate now.
A few days ago, President Daniel Ortega’s Nicaraguan government declared 94 of its (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
About a week ago, on February 9, Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega released and deported 220 of his regime’s political prisoners. Taken from their prison cells, they were put on a plane, ignorant of the plane’s destination. One person speculated that they might be being sent to China. They were (…)
, by PRADO Silvio
Like the USSR’s invasion of Czechoslovakia, Putin’s war against Ukraine will be a watershed for anti-imperialism.
Nothing is more valuable than freedom and independence. - Ho Chi Minh
That the war in Ukraine is a war of aggression, no one can doubt, and that it is a war of imperialist (…)
, by ROBINSON William I.
The internationally-renowned intellectual was arrested in late November, joining an ever-growing list of political prisoners detained by the Ortega regime.
Oscar René Vargas
Three weeks after his arrest by the regime of President Daniel Ortega made international headlines, one of Nicaragua’s (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Oscar-René Vargas, a 77-year-old citizen of Nicaragua, is an economist, historian and current affairs analyst in Central America whose qualities are recognized in academic circles, especially by those who have constantly defended the social and democratic rights of the Nicaraguan people in the (…)
, by ROBINSON William I.
In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx referred to the Napoleonic return to power in the French coup of 1851 as “first as tragedy, then as farce.” There could be no more fitting a characterization of the saga of Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega’s conversion — in about as many (…)
, by CCFD, CNO, CSPN, FAL, FIDH, SOS Nicaragua France, Union syndicale Solidaires
At the initiative of French Collective of solidarity with the people of Nicaragua (CSPN) and supported by CCFD-Terre solidaire, Comité Nicaragua Occitanie (CNO), France Amérique Latine (FAL), Fédération internationale des droits de l’Homme (FIDH), SOS Nicaragua France, and Union syndicale (…)
, by VILCHEZ Dánae
Women’s rights groups supporting marginalised and impoverished people are banned by Ortega’s authoritarian regime
Dozens of feminist groups in Nicaragua that provide crucial support to vulnerable women have been labelled “foreign agents” and outlawed by the government, meaning they can no (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Having arrested and jailed his most significant rivals weeks before the election, President Daniel Ortega was reelected on November 7 to a fourth consecutive term, his fifth altogether, with 75 percent of the vote, according to Nicaraguan election authorities.
Nicaragua exiles in coordinated (…)
, by ROBINSON William I.
After silencing the opposition, Daniel Ortega claims victory for a fourth consecutive term by William I Robinson.
With seven opposition presidential candidates imprisoned and held incommunicado in the months leading up to the vote and all the remaining contenders but one from miniscule (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
“We on the left should be opposed to both the United States and to the Ortega dictatorship. […] As international socialists, we stand with all movements for democracy, civil rights, and for socialism.”
Daniel Ortega, who is running for his fourth consecutive term as president of Nicaragua—his (…)
, by LEGRAND Nathan, TOUSSAINT Éric
THE NICARAGUAN GOVERNMENT’S violent repression against demonstrators protesting its brutal neoliberal policies, resulting in more than 300 people being killed by regime forces since April 2018, is only one of the reasons why various leftist social movements have condemned the Nicaraguan regime (…)
, by HILL Toby Stirling, The Guardian
Opposition calls for a return to the streets as talks between government and civil society leaders stall.
Juana Lesarge’s three sons had packed their bags and borrowed $300 for their escape when police and hooded gunmen surrounded their grandmother’s home in the region of Carazo on Nicaragua’s (…)
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