This January 10, the bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa, Monsignor Rolando Alvarezthe first Nicaraguan prelate to be impeached by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
The Prosecutor’s Office accuses him of alleged conspiracy to undermine national integrity and of spreading false news to the detriment of the State and Nicaraguan society.
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The initial hearing was held behind closed doors in the Central Judicial Complex and was attended only by Ortega officials.
This Tuesday, January 10, it was the 45th anniversary of the murder of Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, the Martyr of Public Liberties and National Hero.
The Chamorro family will not even be able to enclose their grave in the Central Cemetery of the capital, Managua. His children Pedro Joaquín and Cristiana Chamorro Barrios are political prisoners of Daniel Ortega; and the journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro, her other son, is in exile to avoid a secure jail.
As if that were not enough, Juan Lorenzo Holman, his nephew and manager of the newspaper that Pedro Joaquín Chamorro inherited from his family, is in prison in El Chipote. Historians have pointed out that the martyr’s legacy causes “hatred and envy” to the dictatorship.
the ruling party, FSLN, took possession this Tuesday of 100% of the country’s mayors. The Sandinista mayors were sworn in by the authorities of the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE), which is also controlled by magistrates affiliated with the party in power.
This is the first time since the 1980s of the last century that all the municipalities in Nicaragua are governed by the FSLN, under the mandate of the dictator Daniel Ortega.
After more than 12 hours of arbitrary detention, the professorJuan Bautista Guevara Carballowas released at approximately five in the afternoon on Monday, January 9, but not before threatening to arrest him again.
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In interview withArticle 66the teacher denounced the beating received by the uniformed officers who raided his home without a warrant yesterday morning, stripping him of cell phones, computers and other belongings.
Opposition organizations warned that theto life ofpolitical prisonerKevin Solís is once again at “risk”because recently the young opponent was the victim of “physical and psychological torture” in the prison known as “La Modelo”, by order of the director of maximum security, Róger Guevara.
As a young man, he is the beneficiary of precautionary measures by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
