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Victoria Cardenas and Berta Valle: “There can be no elections with a kidnapped opposition” Bertha Valle, wife of Félix Maradiaga, and Victoria Cárdenas, wife of Juan Sebastián Chamorro. Photo: Courtesy Bertha Valle, wife of Félix Maradiaga, and Victoria Cárdenas, wife of Juan Sebastián Chamorro. Photo: Courtesy “Our position, as opposition, should really be to tell the regime that we are not willing to play their game,” said Maradiagas wife 27 julio, 2...

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: * The government of President Daniel Ortega has been arresting opponents and activists who challenge his decades-long rule of Nicaragua. Many of those arrested are disappearing into prisons. As NPRs Jackie Northam reports, the wives of two were in Washington, D.C., this week to appeal to the U.S. for help. JACKIE NORTHAM, BYLINE: On the evening of June 8, Nicaraguan presidential candidate Juan Sebastian Chamorro was at home in the capital, Managua, with his wife, Victoria Car...

Maurice LEMOINE Le Monde (17 juin 2021) en évoquant l’arrestation de treize dirigeants « à quatre mois de la présidentielle ». Le nom du support est purement anecdotique : qu’ils soient de droite, de gauche, du centre ou même qu’ils professent le « tout en même temps », la quasi totalité des médias, à la manière d’un « parti unique », publient quasiment la même chose pour dénoncer la « criminelle dérive du régime de Daniel Ortega ». Une telle unanimité...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) -- Relatives of 16 Nicaraguan opposition figures jailed in recent weeks demanded Thursday that President Daniel Ortega's

Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: In the past week, Nicaraguan police have jailed as many as seven

Berta Valle is the wife of Félix Maradiaga Blandón, one of at least seven opposition leaders who have been detained in Nicaragua so far this month.

Nicaraguan police arrested prominent opposition figures this week, including several presidential candidates, in what many observers say is an inexorable slide back toward dictatorship, with seemingly no way out | Univision News Latin America | Univision

Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: In the past week, Nicaraguan police have jailed as many as seven

The Biden administration warned Nicaragua on Thursday that it won't wait long before using more diplomatic and economic tools to pressure the government of Daniel Ortega to release political opponents and civil society leaders who have been arbitrarily detained over the past week in the most extreme crackdown the country has seen in recent years. "Even one day is too long," Julie Chung, the ...