The National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN-Managua) sent a circular to inform teachers and administrators about the change in the institutional motto. The state university announces the elimination of the expression «To freedom for the university!»which had accompanied that house of studies since the times of the Somoza dictatorship, when this Alma Mater became a bastion of resistance against that other dynastic regime.
Rather «To freedom for the university!»now UNAN-Managua adopts the motto of “University of the people and for the people!” an expression that more identifies the academic institution with the propaganda of the new Sandinista dictatorship, which must appear in all official documents, starting Tuesday, April 23.
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The letter It was addressed to the heads of Directorates, Knowledge Areas, Regional University Centers and Research Centers. It indicates that the “General Secretariat of UNAN-Managua, in use of its powers, hereby communicates that in ordinary session 19-2024, on April 15, 2024, the Board of Directors” approved the implementation of the new phrase .
The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, isolated from the international community, closed the Nicaraguan embassy in South Korea, according to the former Nicaraguan ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS). Arturo McFields, on the morning of Wednesday, April 24.
On his official account on the social network X, the former diplomat published a video announcing that the South Korean authorities confirmed the closure of the Nicaraguan consulate. “Ortega prioritizes resources and greater work with North Korea, a nation classified as a terrorist state,” McFields commented.
The former representative reiterated that the North Korean government “lives threatening the international community with nuclear bombs” and that, in addition, the recent closure of the consulate “means a leap into the void, greater isolation and poverty for Nicaragua.”
The news was also confirmed by a senior South Korean Foreign Ministry official to the media outlet. The Korean Herald. The worker indicated that the main reason for the closure was “due to worsening financial conditions.”
“Following the decision, it appears that the embassy in South Korea will remain closed for the foreseeable future,” he said. The official also specified that “a Nicaraguan ambassador, located in a third country, will also be in charge of Korean affairs, simultaneously, to maintain diplomatic relations with South Korea.”
The dictator of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, has been in Venezuela since early Wednesday morning to participate in the XXIII Summit of the so-called Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP).
Venezuela is one of the few countries to which Ortega can travel without facing protests of repudiation by the local population and Nicaraguan exiles who are in many countries around the world.
According to media outlets at the service of the dictatorship’s propaganda, citing Venezuelan allied media, Ortega arrived in Caracas in the early hours of the night, where he was received by the chancellor of the dictatorship of that South American country, Yván Gil, and the Secretary ALBA-TCP Executive, Jorge Arreaza. His counterpart, the Venezuelan dictator, Nicolás Maduro, did not go to the Caracas airport to receive his Nicaraguan counterpart.
Dictator Ortega, who has not appeared in public in Nicaragua for more than a month, traveled to Venezuela to meet with the leaders of the countries that make up the ALBA-TCP, an alliance that currently leaves no benefit to Nicaragua, since none of The countries that comprise it appear as an important trading partner for the country, as demonstrated by the import and export statistics of the Central Bank of Nicaragua (BCN).
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In recent years, the Nicaraguan dictator has only traveled to Cuba and Venezuela, two of the most totalitarian dictatorships in the region, along with Ortega himself.
From now on, all public or private health personnel, and pharmacists who want to participate in training related to medications, equipment or medical instruments, inside or outside the country; as well as medicine distributors or whoever wants to promote services or hold health congresses in Nicaragua, is obliged to ask permission from the Ministry of Health (Minsa) who must authorize it, otherwise they will not be able to do so.
This was established by the Daniel Ortega regime, through the circular MS-ANRS-MLRG-0007-04-20-2024, of the General Directorate of Health Regulation (DGRS), of the Minsa, issued on April 20 and addressed to representatives of pharmaceutical distributors, laboratories and national and non-national medical equipment and instrument companies.
The ministerial order, signed by Martha Ligia Rosales Granera, director of the DGRS, establishes that “all activities related to training, product launches, congresses and scientific technical activities, national and international congresses, and any other product promotion, which are going to carried out inside or outside the country and that involves the participation of personnel from the public and private health system, must be known 30 days in advance, and authorized by the Minsa.
