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Number 421 | Agosto 2016 |
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![Anuncio](/images/header.jpg) Nicaragua
Not a stone will be left standing…
On July 28, Daniel Ortega made one of the most defining decisions
of the single-party model he seems bent on imposing on this country:
having already ordered the Supreme Court to disqualify the only real opposition, he ordered the CSE to deprive its representatives of their existing legislative seatsFive days later he announced that his wife would be his running mate in November, thus ensuring family succession as part of his model.
All his decisions in the past two months are clear preparations for a dynastic project.
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua briets
REPRESSION IN RANCHO GRANDE
CENIDH has been receiving charges of arbitrary acts committed by Nicaraguan police against the peasant population of Rancho Grande, a municipality that late last... continuar...
Nicaragua
Nicaragua’s electoral farce augurs a conflict with whoever wins in the US
Deputy foreign minister during the revolutionary years,
the author recalls the general lines of US-Nicaraguan relations then
and analyzes the possible scenarios for that relationship
after the upcoming elections in both countries.
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Nicaragua
Armed and politically motivated: A repeating tragedy
Since 1990, the inability, insensitivity and lack of political will
of Nicaragua’s successive governments to acknowledge and deal with
the civil war’s residual effects on those who are always being forgotten
has left many poor peasants seeing armed political violence
as the only option left open, the only way to recuperate
their stolen dignity and violated rights.
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El Salvador
Political prisoners: “The Fifth Front” 36 years later
What was life like for political prisoners
in the jails of the Salvadoran dictatorship?
Here are the stories of Bernabé and Susana,
of El Salvador’s Political Prisoners Committee,
known in the 1980s as the “the fifth front of the war”
Hearing their experiences is a tribute to those who fought
from the prisons for the freedom of a people.
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Guatemala
A book bathed in tears
Below is the presentation of Ixcán: Masacres y sobrevivencia,
a book by Guatemalan Jesuit anthropologist Ricardo Falla,
delivered on June 27 by José Luis Rocha in Quetzaltenango.
It’s the fourth of a nine-volume series, Al atardecer de la vida…,
a collection of Falla’s dispersed unpublished writings.
He wrote what are now volumes 3, 4 and 5 in the mid-1980s
while accompanying Communities of Population in Resistance,
the survivors of massacres perpetrated by the Guatemalan Army.
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Internacional
How did we get to this chaos?
On his return from the Auschwitz concentration camp,
Pope Francis said the world is at war. How did this happen?
It’s hard to tell left from right among today’s political leaders,
as they all seem without ideologies and subordinated to finance.
Some historians argue that history’s two engines are greed and fear
and explain that values and priorities change in an avaricious society.
Clearly, the world today is experiencing a time of greed and fear.
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