Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
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), (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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