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Montevideo, April 19th 2024 - 06:34 UTC

Tag: Daniel Ortega

  • Friday, February 17th 2023 - 09:43 UTC

    Nicaragua bans yet another 25 NGOs

    The Ortega administration has banned 3,248 NGOs since April 2018

    The Government of Nicaragua Wednesday banned yet another 25 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) including two from the United States, bringing the total list of such entities to have suffered the same fate under the Daniel Ortega regime to 3,248 since popular unrest broke out in April 2018.

  • Saturday, February 11th 2023 - 10:51 UTC

    Nicaragua releases over 200 political prisoners, sends them to the US

    “Let them have their mercenaries,” Ortega said on TV about those released

    The Nicaraguan government of President Daniel Ortega has released over 200 political prisoners and sent them over to the United States, it was reported in Managua. The beneficiaries of the move, including opposition leaders, priests, and critics of the government, were transferred to the El Chipote prison late Wednesday and boarded a plane in the early hours of Thursday, according to journalist Tifani Roberts, who currently resides in the United States.

  • Wednesday, October 19th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

    Nicaraguan gov't outlaws another 58 NGOs

    After this measure, 146 NGOs have been dissolved in the last two weeks

    The Nicaraguan government of President Daniel Ortega has canceled the registrations of 58 other NGOs “for being in abandonment and having between 2 and 27 years of non-compliance in accordance with the laws that regulate them,” it was reported in Managua.

  • Friday, September 30th 2022 - 18:55 UTC

    Chilean President a “lapdog” of the US for Nicaragua's Ortega

    Ortega argued Boric had no authority to question him, coming from a land where Pinochet's Constitution continues to prevail

    Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega Wednesday dubbed Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font a “lapdog” of the US administration and insisted it had become fashionable to request the release of political prisoners in his country.

  • Wednesday, September 14th 2022 - 19:42 UTC

    Maduro and Ortega unwelcome at Queen's funeral

    The UK does not even recognize Maduro as the legitimate president of Venezuela

    British authorities have left Presidents Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela out of the guest list for Queen Elizabeth II's funeral next Monday in London.

  • Wednesday, September 14th 2022 - 09:34 UTC

    UNHCHR issues statement against Nicaragua's regime

    Cuba spoke in favor of Ortega

    The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has exposed in a document released Tuesday Nicaragua's disregard for civil liberties nationwide.

  • Thursday, September 1st 2022 - 10:30 UTC

    Nicaraguan regime releases pictures of political prisoners

    Following their arrest, Ortega was easily reelected in November

    The Nicaraguan regime of Daniel Ortega has been criticized Wednesday by human rights organizations after pictures of the country's political prisoners were released.

  • Friday, August 19th 2022 - 20:40 UTC

    Nicaraguan authorities raid Catholic curia

    Bishop Alvarez and 8 other people were taken into custody.

    Nicaraguan police Friday raided the home of the Catholic Bishop Matagalpa, Rolando Alvarez, who has been under house arrest for the past two weeks for being overly critical of President Daniel Ortega, whose regime he was accused of trying to “destabilize.”

  • Monday, July 11th 2022 - 09:36 UTC

    Nicaraguan reporters placed under arrest for 90 days

    “Ortega, the same one who received Mother Teresa in the 1980s, is the one who expelled her religious congregation from the country,” human rights groups claimed

    A Nicaraguan judge has ruled two workers of the newspaper La Prensa are to spend 90 days in pretrial detention after being arrested for reporting on the expulsion from the country of nuns belonging to Mother Teresa's Congregation.

  • Friday, June 10th 2022 - 21:28 UTC

    Nicaragua opens the door for Russian troops to land in Central America

    Ortega has time and again approved of every initiative by Putin

    Nicaragua's regime has reportedly greenlighted the entry of Russian forces into the Central American country, according to a Russian state TV broadcast. “It is time for Russia to deploy something powerful closer to US cities,” host Olga Skabeeva was quoted as saying.