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Responding to Pressure, Ortega-Murillo Administration Publishes “Action Plan”

After another defeat at the OAS and under threat of a general strike, the Ortega-Murillo administration released a nine-point program to “consolidate stability and peace in Nicaragua.” The document reiterates that the government will “definitively” liberate all political prisoners by…
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After a Disastrous Weekend, Ortega-Murillo Government Excarcerates One-Hundred Political Prisoners on Eve of OAS Special Session.

This weekend, the Ortega-Murillo government experienced moral and public relations defeats, after ineptly handling Eddy Montes’ death and its aftermath. As is customary, the administration pretended that press releases and public spectacle would sufficiently calm local and international public outrage….
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Fallout from Montes Case Continues; Eye Witnesses Describe Torture, as Blatant Human Rights Violations Continue in Nicaragua.

The Modelo Prison in Tipitapa, already infamous since the 1970s, reached another low this week, when a guard shot and killed Eddy Montes, a political prisoner. The shooting triggered a vicious attack on Montes’ fellow inmates that left at least…
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Political Prisoner Eddy Montes Killed in Custody; Nicaragua’s MIGOB says it was “self-defense,” though Fellow Prisoners Dispute this.

Political prisoner Eddy Montes was shot and killed yesterday by a guard at the Modelo Prison in Tipitapa, Nicaragua. The fifty-seven year old Montes was an American citizen. The circumstances of his death are under dispute, as the Ministry of…
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