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Children of Exile: The Births “Sowing Hope” in the Camp of Nicaraguan Farmers

Tayling Orozco fled to Costa Rica after Ortega-allied paramilitaries shot at her house on the island of Ometepe. Living in exile, she’s now the mother of two little girls.

Some twenty children have been born since 2018 in a camp for exiled Nicaraguan farmers in Upala, Costa Rica.“They give us hope,” those living there say

Redacción Confidencial · 13 de diciembre 2024

Twenty Human Rights Abuses Committed Against Nicaraguans by the Ortega-Murillo Regime

In one of the last commemorations of Human Rights Day, in December 2019, in Nicaragua, the victims of the April Rebellion were remembered.

Progressive violations since 2007 worsened in 2018 and are set to intensify under the “new” Constitution starting January 2025

Redacción Confidencial · 11 de diciembre 2024

How Ortega's Propaganda Spins the Real Impact of the “Reformed” Constitution

Daniel Ortega alongside his wife and “co-president” Rosario Murillo.

Official media is presenting the new Constitution as a “partial reform” or “modernization.” We analyzed 36 pro-government publications

Redacción Confidencial · 10 de diciembre 2024

Credicoop is a financial entity created in 2019 to evade international sanctions.

Credicoop: The Ortega Regime’s “Slush Fund” for Evading Sanctions and “Laundering” Bancorp and Caruna Assets

A fund of over $500 million finances agricultural, commercial, and real estate ventures tied to the Ortega-Murillo family and their associates

Redacción Confidencial · 9 de diciembre 2024

Syrian regime soldiers are transferred by rebel soldiers in Homs.

Syrians Celebrate the Fall of Bashar al-Assad, Now Exiled in Moscow

Damascus, the capital, fell in just twelve days without support from Russia, Iran, or Hezbollah

Agencia EFE · 9 de diciembre 2024

Writing and Exile

Words of author Sergio Ramírez upon receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Guadalajara, Mexico on December 4, 2024.

Sergio Ramírez Mercado · 9 de diciembre 2024

Nicaraguan Journalist Henry Briceño Secretly Banished, Police Seize His Home

Briceño and his family were expelled from their home in San Rafael del Sur by Police without the right to take anything. Their properties were seized

Iván Olivares · 8 de diciembre 2024

How To Beat Trump

What can Mexico do? Show its power. And it has a lot of it

Jorge Ramos · 8 de diciembre 2024

Nicaragua's ‘New’ Constitution Opens the Door to Natural Resource Exploitation

Recent constitutional reforms in Nicaragua expand resource exploitation concessions, obscure decision-making, and drop environmental commitments.

Redacción Confidencial · 8 de diciembre 2024

Army General Julio César Avilés greets the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin.

Russia Approves Military Cooperation Pact with Nicaragua

The five-year intergovernmental project includes coordinating efforts to address threats to security and stability

Redacción Confidencial · 5 de diciembre 2024

Socialist International Condemns Worsening Crisis and “Brutal Repression” in Nicaragua

“They institutionalize nepotism, eliminate municipal autonomy, and subordinate public institutions to the absolute control of the presidential family”

Agencia EFE · 5 de diciembre 2024