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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 citizens to (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 longer (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
“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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
The brutal state crackdown on anti-government protests has convinced many progressive activists that the Ortega government must be overthrown. Feminists and LGBT activists continue to struggle for peace, democracy and justice – but they face violence and discrimination on a daily basis.
Sara (...)
Amaya Coppens is being detained as a political prisoner in Nicaragua. She is a student in medicine at the University UNAN in León.
Mr. President, We are activists, former volunteers and leaders of associations and non-governmental organizations, all from different political and philosophical (...)
“Each gesture of solidarity among the families and the prisoners is also a way of resisting the isolation in which they’re kept.”
As 3 pm on December 31 approaches, a parade of family members files out of the meeting plaza at the El Modelo prison in Tipitapa: hundreds of relatives of the (...)
The following statement is from the Articulación de Movimientos Sociales, the coalition of social movements in Nicaragua.
Alert and Request for International Condemnation: Nicaraguan Government Raids the offices of the principal human rights, non-governmental and media organizations.
URGENT (...)
This statement was adopted by the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International on 28 October 2018.
The Sandinista Popular Revolution
The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) was born as a “vanguard organization” with an anti-imperialist and revolutionary orientation, as established in (...)
Despite mass killings and newly authoritarian laws, a diverse opposition says the movement to oust Ortega is far from over.
From late April through early July, thousands of Nicaraguans marched in the streets, barricaded roadways, and occupied universities. All the while, they chanted their (...)
For the past 3 months, progressive websites and journals have run articles that paint a picture of the crisis in Nicaragua that is dangerously misleading. Many of these articles have been circulated among people on the left who were in solidarity with Nicaragua and the FSLN during the 1970s (...)
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