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Number 444 | Julio 2018 |
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Nicaragua
Resisting the strategy of terror
The enormous national effort
to achieve a change in Nicaragua
needs an equivalent international effort.
In June we saw the first signs that the world
is beginning to grasp what’s happening here:
that Ortega is determined to hold on to power
and has opted for a strategy of terrorist crimes
to impose fear in the people, and those crimes
have multiplied all over the country.... continuar...
Nicaragua
Nicaragua briefs
THE IACHR ADDS NINE
MORE RECOMMENDATIONS
In its final report, presented to the OAS Permanent Council on June 22, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) added 9 recommendations... continuar...
Nicaragua
“I’m certain we’ll bring down this dictatorship”
A lifelong Sandinista ideologue who fought
in the final offensive against the Somoza dictatorship
then headed the FSLN’s International Relations Department
during the revolutionary government,
López analyzes the challenges of today’s unarmed insurrection
against the Ortega dictatorship.... continuar...
Nicaragua
The government’s policy of terror has created a dilemma for the Army
Rather than accept that its days are numbered,
the government has organized and armed shock troops
made up of ex-police and army personnel, gang members,
municipal workers and common criminals.
Together with the anti-riot police,
this hooded repressive mob is in charge of waging
the Ortega-Murillo government’s strategy of terror.
The legacy this bloody strategy will leave is bleak,
but right now it poses a dilemma for the Army,
which can no longer stay on good terms with
both the government and the people,
as it has attempted to do so far.... continuar...
Nicaragua
The open veins of Nicaragua
This message is for leftists everywhere,
and is also a self-criticism, admits its author.
Weighing the hard lessons he posits here may be
the best and most lasting way to show solidarity
with Nicaragua’s people and respect their dignity.... continuar...
Nicaragua
“We’ll never be the same”
“Being out on the streets the first two months of this struggle
has raised many questions for me about our history’s
terrifying repetition of dictatorship,
only a few of which I’m raising here.”
This is only one of the testimonies
from one of the thousands of students
who aroused national consciousness in April
and initiated a civic insurrection against the dictatorship.... continuar...
México
“AMLO, I’ll be watching you”
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a.k.a. AMLO,
unseated the nearly eternally governing PRI
in Mexico’s general elections on July 1.
This open letter posted in the social media
offers one explanation for the mixed reactions
to the victory of this outspoken leftist candidate
of a coalition including his own four-year-old party,
the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
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a monthly magazine of analysis on Central America