Tag: Nicaragua
More than two hundred political prisoners, including two French women, released in Nicaragua
They are among the opposition prisoners released Thursday, February 9, in Nicaragua by the government of Daniel Ortega. Two French women, as well as more than two hundred other political…
Paris denounces the “opacity” of the trial of Franco-Nicaraguan women in Nicaragua
By Le Figaro with AFP Published on 01/27/2023 at 5:49 p.m., Update on 01/27/2023 at 5:51 p.m. Demonstrations against the Nicaraguan regime, November 6, 2022. Ezequiel BECERRA / AFP France…
Two French women sentenced to eight years in prison in Nicaragua
Published on 01/27/2023 at 3:45 p.m. Photo credit © Reuters MANAGUA (Reuters)…
In Nicaragua, Bishop Rolando Alvarez soon to be tried for “conspiracy”
Rolando Alvarez, bishop of Matagalpa, in a church where he had taken refuge to flee police persecution, in Managua (Nicaragua), May 20, 2022. MAYNOR VALENZUELA/REUTERS His homilies hit the mark.…
Bishop Detained in Nicaragua ‘In Good Health’, Cardinal Says
Bishop Rolando Alvarez, arrested and placed under house arrest in Nicaragua since August, is “in good healthNicaraguan Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes said Sunday. Bishop Alvarez, critic of the regime, “is in…
Nicaragua: four collaborators of an opposition newspaper accused of “conspiracy”
Four contributors to the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa – including two drivers imprisoned since July 6 – were indicted last week in Nicaragua for “conspiracy”, announced on Tuesday the daily…
Nicaragua breaks diplomatic relations with the Netherlands
The Nicaraguan government broke diplomatic relations with the Netherlands on Friday evening, accused of being “interventionistsby taking the decision to cancel funding for the construction of a hospital, the Nicaraguan…
Nicaragua isolates itself from the international scene
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega in Managua on September 28, 2022. JAIRO CAJINA / AFP Daniel Ortega defies the world. The former Sandinista guerrilla has taken a further step in his…
In Nicaragua, the Spanish version of CNN cut off the air during Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech at the UN
The Nicaraguan government invoked, on Friday, September 23, a “attack on national sovereignty” to justify the withdrawal of the antenna in the night from Wednesday to Thursday of the programs…
In Nicaragua, the repressive escalation hits two Franco-Nicaraguan women
The French Embassy in Nicaragua has been facing a diplomatic headache since the extrajudicial arrest of two Franco-Nicaraguan women. The wife and daughter of an opponent of President Daniel Ortega…
Nicaragua: arrest of two Franco-Nicaraguan women, according to an NGO in exile
It would be the daughter and wife of Javier Alvarez, an opponent in exile to the government of President Daniel Ortega. The Quai d’Orsay follows “closely the situation of our…
Nicaragua: Police again ban Catholic processions
The Nicaraguan police banned for reasons of “public security” two popular Catholic processions which were to be held at the end of September in Masaya, 30 km southeast of Managua,…