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Number 455 | Junio 2019 |
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Nicaragua
Will the transition speed up or will Ortega kill the negotiations?
Several events during the ides of May
gave the citizenry’s resistance renewed energy.
In response, of course, the regime
intensified its control over the population
and acted unilaterally, ignoring the Civic Alliance,
its counterpart at the negotiating table.
What might the ides of June bring?
An acceleration of the difficult transition
the majority of Nicaraguans want?
Or will the regime scuttle the
second shot at a negotiated solution?... continuar...
Nicaragua
Nicaragua briefs
CID-GALLUP POLL
In the latest CID-Gallup poll, which surveyed a national sample of 1,205 people between May 7 and 21, a total of 77%—among them 47% of those who identified themselves as Sandinistas—said... continuar...
Nicaragua
The Caribbean Coast’s voice in the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy
This sociologist and anthropologist,
a member of the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy
and Caribbean Coast representative in the National Dialogue
reports on the Caribbean region’s different realities
and shares her reflections about her participation
in the currently negotiations with the Ortega regime. ... continuar...
Nicaragua
Overhaul the existing Police or create a new one?
The new Nicaragua will have to create a new police force,
in part because in 2011 the existing one embraced
Daniel Ortega’s open-ended authoritarian project,
sacrificing the legitimacy of its origins by so doing.
Even more importantly, the human rights violations
and crimes against humanity the Police have committed
during the bloody repression since April 2018
have put paid to what little legitimacy it still retained.
Nicaragua needs and wants a new police force
with a new doctrine, and new formation and training
governed by a democratic public security policy.
Reforms won’t do; the change will have to be total,
right down to a new name and different uniforms,... continuar...
Nicaragua
Torture in the detention centers
The following is a summary of “Going back to being human,”
a preliminary report about torture in the regime’s detention centers
written by human rights defenders in the Colectivo Nicaragua Nunca+.
They originally were part of the Nicaraguan Human Rights Center (CENIDH),
and took exile in Costa Rica during the December 2018 repressive wave.
This important report is the first extended documentation of the horror
that was and still is being experienced by people imprisoned
for opposing the Ortega-Murillo regime after the
April 2018 civic rebellion.... continuar...
Centroamérica
Undocumented emigrants’ civil disobedience: Self-employment and informality
The civil disobedience of each working day
has given undocumented emigrants in the US
a space where their own business licenses,
recognition of their skills and qualifications,
their personalized work, their financial progress
and their trucks, which serve as their passports,
all make them increasingly more indispensable,
thus less excluded by migration laws and racism.
I met four interesting examples:
Reynaldo the gardener, Eladio the tailor,
Kelvin the builder and Benjamín the businessman.... continuar...
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