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Open Letter from Sergio Ramirez to President Lula da Silva

Sergio Ramirez — 2026-08-31T10:03:18Z

“Ortega has abolished elections. Do not deny Nicaragua the right to choose freely—the same right that could make you president of Brazil for a fourth time.”

- News from around the world / Brazil, Nicaragua

The Ortega-Murillo Dictatorship Was Not Born of the Revolution

Mónica Baltodano — 2026-08-04T08:58:38Z

“Every 19 July, the same debate returns. The Ortega-Murillo dictatorship insists on presenting itself as heir to the Sandinista Popular Revolution. At the same time, part of the opposition accepts that narrative and ends up reinforcing it by asserting that the current regime is nothing more than the logical consequence of the 1979 revolution.”

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Nicaragua

Nicaragua's blanket of repression

Mike Phipps — 2024-12-29T11:31:48Z

”The Ortega-Murillo regime has betrayed the legacy of the Sandinista Revolution and makes a US-led neoliberal takeover more feasible.”

- Features / Nicaragua

Nicaragua Today: “Purgers, Corruption, & Servility to Putin”

Dora María Téllez — 2024-11-11T14:15:00Z

These comments by former Sandinista militant and now exiled dissident Dora María Téllez, are excerpted from an interview by Carlos F. Chamorro on the Esta Semana program broadcast July 21 on CONFIDENCIAL's YouTube channel. Téllez, an historian and political activist, analyzed president Daniel Ortega's speech and the country's political situation on the 45th anniversary of ousting the Anastasio Somoza dictatorship.

- IV598 - November 2024 / Nicaragua

"There are no longer any trade union organizations, no longer any autonomous social movement. We need solidarity".

Mariana Sanchez, Mónica Baltodano — 2024-03-19T18:31:00Z

“We are optimistic; we believe that sooner or later this regime will fall. Thousands of Sandinistas, state workers, soldiers and policemen are no longer with the regime, even if they remain in their jobs because they can't make a living from anything else.”

- IV590 - March 2024 / Nicaragua

“The world needs to be aware that human rights are being trampled on in Nicaragua”

Jeunes anticapitalistes (JAC) — 2023-09-27T12:24:00Z

“Denounce Ortega to international organizations. Call on human rights organizations. Drive support campaigns.”

- IV584 - September 2023 / Nicaragua

Open Letter to the parties and organizations of the São Paulo Forum

Collective — 2023-06-17T11:30:10Z

“We, the undersigned, are part of the political prisoners who spent almost two years in prison, we are part of those who have been exiled, deprived of our nationality and repressed by the Ortega regime for denouncing its atrocities.”

- IV581 - June 2023 / Nicaragua

Ortega Strips Nationality from 94 Opponents

Dan La Botz — 2023-03-02T15:28:55Z

“A few days ago, President Daniel Ortega's Nicaraguan government declared 94 of its citizens to be traitors and stripped them of their nationality, denying them citizenship rights, and seizing their property.”

- IV578 - March 2023 / Nicaragua

Oscar René Vargas is Nicaragua's Latest Prisoner of Conscience

William I Robinson — 2023-01-14T09:41:55Z

The internationally-renowned intellectual was arrested in late November 2022, joining an ever-growing list of political prisoners detained by the Ortega regime.

- IV576 - January 2023 / Nicaragua

Nicaragua: Daniel Ortega & the Ghost of Louis Bonaparte

William I Robinson — 2022-12-10T07:28:56Z

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 years as had lapsed from the fall of the first Napoleon Bonaparte to the coup carried out by his nephew Louis —from a socialist revolutionary to a repressive and corrupt petty dictator.

- IV575 - December 2022 / Nicaragua