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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 Maradiaga's wife 27 julio, 2021 Victoria Cárdenas and Berta Valle, wives of presidential aspiring candidates Juan Sebastián C...

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 NPR's 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 Cardenas, when suddenly, dozens of armed police stormed the front gate and entered the house. VICTORIA...

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 devrait mettre la puce à l’oreille. Soit le Nicaragua est effectivement devenu « le Goulag cen...

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