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‘A feeling of deja vu’: author Sergio Ramírez on ex-comrade Ortega and Nicaraguan history repeating
The country’s greatest living writer feels ‘surprised, bewildered and assaulted’ after the president issued a warrant for his arrest and seized copies of his new novel about the 2018 uprisingSergio Ramírez, Nicaragua’s best-known living writer, hero of…
Nicaraguan police raid opposition newspaper La Prensa
Only remaining print paper raided as part of ‘customs fraud and money laundering’ investigationNicaraguan police have raided the offices of the main opposition newspaper La Prensa.The national police said the raid on Friday was part of an investigatio…
Nicaragua: Ortega opponent becomes eighth election candidate to be arrested
Crackdown continues as vice-presidential hopeful Berenice Quezada accused of ‘terrorism’ for criticising lack of freedomNicaraguan authorities have detained a candidate in the November presidential elections, her party has said, as the government of Pr…