Tag: Daniel Ortega
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Several Nicaraguan opposition leaders, including four presidential hopefuls, remained imprisoned on Thursday with five months to go before the general elections, which prompted the Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro,...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Nicaragua has "vigorously" protested the sanctions imposed Wednesday, June 9, by the United States against four advisers to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, including his daughter Camila Antonia Ortega Murillo; the sanctions followed the recent...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, on Wednesday urged its members to suspend Nicaragua's participation in this organization following the arrest of several opposition politicians.
Specifically, Almagro asked "the Permanent...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Nicaraguan authorities continued Wednesday the arrests of opposition leaders, including four aspirants to the Presidency of Nicaragua. At the same time, the United States sanctioned four advisors of President Daniel Ortega, including his daughter...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The National Police reported on Tuesday that it has detained opposition presidential hopeful Felix Maradiaga, who is being investigated by the Public Prosecutor's Office for "inciting foreign interference in internal affairs".
Maradiaga, an academic and...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The U.S. State Department urged the regime of Daniel Ortega to release opposition leader Cristiana Chamorro, recently detained by the Nicaraguan judiciary.
In a statement, the Department of State maintained that Chamorro's detention "is an...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Nicaraguan Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) issued a reminder this Friday, June 4, of the legal requirements to be fulfilled by the presidential aspirants for the November elections, elections for which this week opposition...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Cristiana Chamorro, the Nicaraguan opposition figure with the highest probability of winning the November elections, in which President Daniel Ortega is seeking new reelection, spent this Thursday 24 hours confined in her house, incommunicado...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said in a tweet on Wednesday that the possible disqualification of Nicaragua's presidential candidate, opposition candidate Cristiana Chamorro, reflects the fear of President Daniel Ortega of "free...
