Update on situation in Nicaragua: 34 confirmed dead, unknown number continue detained

Repression continues in Nicaragua

Photos of seven of the youth killed in Nicaragua during anti-government protests

Human rights groups in Nicaragua have confirmed the death of 34 Nicaraguans in anti-government protests that began on April 18, 2018. The death of 34 protesters in Nicaragua would be the equivalent of 1,785 protesters in the United States.  This explains the outrage in the Central American country at the loss of life and the call for president Daniel Ortega's resignation.

 International human rights organizations have called for investigations into the killings and the Committee to Protect Journalists tweeted about the murder of a journalist and regime efforts to shut down news broadcasts in Nicaragua.

Nicaraguan authorities have cracked down on coverage of the protests and independent media outlets, censoring news broadcasts and blocking TV broadcasts, as multiple journalists have been injured while covering the protests. More: https://t.co/6zvgW6eSp2

— CPJ (@pressfreedom) April 25, 2018

Furthermore, students are being arbitrarily detained, mistreated and tortured according to testimony by some of them who have been released. Additionally there continue to be many who are detained.

RT: “Fueron tres horas de tortura, golpes, patadas, ellos hicieron filas para patearnos”: estudiantes detenidos durantes protestas contra reformas al #INSSNica cuentan el horror que vivieron y advierten que seguirán luchando ➡️ https://t.co/yLW9d9L5nt #SOSNicaragua #Nicaragua pic.twitter.com/gQCuMOeTKD

— La Prensa Nicaragua (@laprensa) April 24, 2018

There continue to be reports in the press of more dead that need to be confirmed. The situation in Nicaragua remains grave. A march for peace is being planned for this Saturday in Managua. #AllEyesOnNicaragua

A Resistance Manifesto for Venezuela by the Patriotic Student and Peoples Council

#Resistance 

 March 3, 2014

Manifesto of Mérida 

Students have unified the nation around the conquest of the Freedom of Venezuela. For that reason the Castro-communist regime with paramilitary groups and the National Guard have killed, tortured and imprisoned colleagues throughout the national territory. The people have joined us: its libertarian spirit has awakened before the oppression of 15 years of this political system. In virtue of this historic moment, we hold before the country the following position in a manner that is convincing, honorable and indispensable, against those who want to dominate us and their collaborators:

1) Every political system is effective to the extent that their leaders are representative: the people in the street have shown that today that has ceased to be. In this sense, they are asking us to dialogue after 15 years of oppression. We do not want the peace of slaves: we are free Venezuelans. No dialogue is possible with a crony and totalitarian regime, which seeks to make us dependent. Freedom is not for sale . We will not legitimize a regime that has impoverished the majority of Venezuelans. The dialogue roundtables of 2004, in which Jimmy Carter and Cesar Gaviria were, demonstrated that there are not good intentions. Such regimes are inefficient: they purposely destroy Nations to control them better. We will not dialogue to perpetuate in power the worse Venezuelans. Any possibility of dialogue for us is imperatively conditioned, for a root change of the system.

2) We demand as patriots the withdrawal of the entire Cuban military occupation force . We want them to leave our territory, all the functionaries in our institutions because they represent, with their interference in our internal affairs, a threat to the security of the Nation . We want a sovereign Nation.

3) We will conquer our freedom. Individual freedom. Economic freedom to be able to live by the product of our own efforts. Freedom of speech to inform and express ourselves without any controls by any regime. Political freedom to protest, assemble and organize without it being a crime. Freedom to choose without it signifying a farce. We do not tolerate the controls of this Castro-communist regime nor any other that undermines the values ​​and principles of Venezuelans.

4) We demand the disbanding and disarmament of the paramilitary groups that protect and arm the regime to instill fear among Venezuelans. In this sense, as long as the terrorist attack by these groups continue with impunity, we call on the people to defend itself. We protect ourselves with the "Trenches of Freedom" in our cities and towns, because we will not allow attacks on what is most sacred to us: the family and heritage.

5) We demand the immediate release of all political prisoners , full freedom for those who were detained and the return of all exiles.

Venezuelans, 
This is the moment to define our destiny. Our national identity is being tested and we have sensitized the world to our courage. There is no possibility of real change if we do not arrive to the end: therefore, it is prohibited to lose. We will win, and with the people reestablish the nation as the freest on the continent. In memory of our fallen we will not give up. It's time to rewrite the history of Venezuela and sign it with the sweat of our efforts.

Therefore , that from today March 2, 2014 from the trenches of the Freedom of the City of Mérida, we declare constituted the PATRIOTIC STUDENT AND PEOPLES COUNCIL ( JPEP ) in order to restore Freedom and Sovereignty to Venezuela, at a meeting of student leaders, youth and popular fighters of the country, subscribe the undersigned,

 Freedom or nothing.

Official account of the Patriotic Council: @jpep2014

Anzoátegui: Eduardo Bittar, Marialvic Olivares, José Petete, Johan Infante, Juan Ibor.

Apure: Alberto Mogollón.

Barinas: Luis Octavio Rivas.

Bolívar: Samuel Petit, Ligia Bolívar, Rafael Tirado, Jonás Díaz.

Carabobo: Julio Cesar Rivas, Gustavo Galea, Lorent Saleh, Carlos Graffe, Ivan Uzcátegui, Rita Roa, Sabrina Cruces, Alfredo Stelling, Dimitry Belov, Marco Bozo, Francisco Abreu, Ángel Morales, Hermogenes López, Patricia Salamanca, Betania Bermejo, Angel Morales, Gabriela Suniaga, Freymar Torres, Luis Rodríguez, Daniel Coronel, Rina Rivas.

Caracas: Roderick Navarro, Francisco Márquez, Juan Flores,  Juan Requesens,  Josmir Gutiérrez, Ana Karina García, Javier González, Juan Carlos Apitz, José Javier Martínez, Guillermo Prieto, Pavel Quintero.

Lara: Jorge López, Luis Soteldo, Álvaro Avendaño, Iraiby Rodríguez, Raúl Rodríguez, Gabriel Lugo, Guillermo Osorno, Xavier Aldana, Tobias Alvarado.

Mérida: Gaby Arellano Villca Fernández, Liliana Guerrero, Aimara Rivas, Guido Mercado, Diego Rimer, Eloi Araujo, José Pozo, Rafael Chinchilla, Jackson Durán, Alirio Arroyo, Fabiana Santamaría, Rómulo Canelón, Nilver Torres, Miguel Gómez, Gina Rodríguez, Carlos Velasco, Antonio Intriago, Charly Aponte, Carlos Ramírez, Augusto García,  Edgar Osuna, Jorge Arellano, Jean Paul Méndez, Carlos Velázquez, Antonio Indriago, Alfredo Ocanto.

Monagas: Miguel Meneses

Portuguesa: Víctor Uribe.

Sucre: Eduardo Roque.

Táchira: José Vicente García, Wilmer Zabaleta, Leonardo Montilla, Reinaldo Manrique, Miguel Ochoa, José Aguilar, Carlos Maldonado

Trujillo: Gabriel Boscán, Elsi Guillén, Jairo Villa, Luis Borrero, Ronald Flores, Gabriel Pérez, Andrea Bracamonte, Jesús Rubio.

Zulia: Yorman Barilla, Eduardo Fernandez, Juan Urdaneta, Victor Ruz, Luis Diaz.


Original Spanish text

Youth and Students address the Venezuelan Nation: Now is the time for Resistance

#Resistance

PRESS RELEASE 2: The Student Movement and youth to the Nation 02/24/2014

The undersigned hold that:

"Foreign military forces have laid siege to Venezuela. Their mercenaries attack us in a vile and savage manner. Their goal is to enslave us and to be the conductors of our existence, dishonoring the flags that have kept us in the street and that we will defend to the death.

We want our Freedom. It is vital to defend the sovereignty of the nation, expelling Pro-Castro Cubans who are usurping the government and the Armed Forces.

We do not accept nor will we accept the criminal policy promoted by the regime, impunity, repression and persecution. It is unacceptable that this regime continues to promote the impoverishment of the people, enough of humiliating Venezuelans and reducing them to subsistence levels. We are not and never will be your slaves. Censorship is unacceptable as is the siege on the Freedom of expression.

We are outraged and it makes us our blood boil that Cubans are intervening in our affairs as a Nation.

We demand the deposition of the usurper Nicolás Maduro and his entire cabinet, in addition, the Freedom for all our political prisoners and the disarmament of the collectives.

You cannot dialogue with those who have tortured and sexually abused comrades in the struggle. You cannot talk to murderers. Our principles do not allow us to dialogue with who protect irregular groups firing against the defenseless population to instill fear.

We will protest until our demands are met. We will conquer the Freedom of Venezuela and expel the Castro- communists from the homeland! The street should remain ours. Our will to be free is unwavering, which is why, as repression intensifies, grows the courage of a country that aspires to be reborn and to be great.

To all Venezuelans,

The regime declared war on all civilians who did not join with their ideology. Our call is to defense: not to allow the invaders and the repressive bodies to profane your street, your avenue or your property. Impede them access so that they do not shoot at your neighborhood, so that they do not destroy your properties, so that they do not injure yours and, above all, to know that there are embattled Venezuelans, who will not be enslaved by the use of force.

The Student and Youth Movement is the spearhead of this great Venezuelan awakening. What guides us are our hearts: we are neither with the government nor with those who falsely oppose, we do not respond to any particular political interest or respond to any economic interest. We are with the Venezuelan people; we are the sons and daughters of the people. That people who suffer daily in order to get food, the people that when sick cannot heal properly because it cannot obtain medicines, these people who every day are victims of a group of thugs allied to the regime that steals and kills with impunity. That people who long for a decent job where their salary will be enough for them to live with dignity. People of Venezuela: all your sons and daughters have taken the first step.

People of Venezuela: It is necessary that you actively join this protest and national mobilization. If we do not overcome, the death of our comrades would have been in vain, and the problems will not be solved. If we do not overcome, death will overtake us as well. 200 years ago, we won our independence; let's do it again all together, doing honor to the blood of young patriots who have given everything for Venezuela. We are not opposition: it is the hour of the Resistance, that's who we are.

Without freedom, nothing "

José Vicente García, Roderick Navarro, Gaby Arellano, Juan Urdaneta, Julio Cesar Rivas, Eduardo Bittar, Lorent Saleh, Josmir Gutiérrez, Ana Karina García, Villca Fernández, Iván Uzcategui, Liliana Guerrero, José Martínez, Víctor Uribe, Juan Flores, Raúl Rodríguez, Aimara Rivas, Luis Octavio Rivas y Gabriel Boscán.

IF YOU ARE IN AGREEMENT WITH THIS POSITION, SPREAD THE MESSAGE AND ADD YOUR NAME.

Original Spanish text available online here.

The price of a "free" education in Cuba

Cuba has suffered under a totalitarian dictatorship for the past 54 years and the consequences to children have been incalculable. Below is a report from Iván Hernandez Carrillo about how children are penalized for not going along with the Castro regime's acts of repudiation against nonviolent dissidents.

Cuban students in Cuba are required to attend activities organized by regime

Pledge regime requires of entering high school students in Cuba who want to teach: "Feel vocation for teaching, being aware that once passing grade 12 and the three entrance tests I can only choose teaching careers." and further on "free from any disease, physical limitations, mental, political or religious preventing me from training as a patriotic student" and that I must be "unconditional to the tasks and duties assigned to me." Below is a real world application of this pledge.

Complete Information on manipulation of children for acts of repudiation in the "free" education of Castro-communism:

Last Wednesday December 11 the professor Peñalver of Military Training at the Leonel Fraguela Pre-University of Colón met with the parents of students of that school to threaten them for not letting their children go to acts of repudiation against the Ladies in White on Sundays. This professor told them they would lose points in the evaluation and thus lower the grade point average and may even fail the course; however those who attend will be awarded 100 points on average. The parents objected but the professor threatened to suspend them.
 
This was in response to last Sunday when parents forbade their children to repudiate the Ladies in White.


Repression in neighborhood of Miramar in Havana, Cuba on December 10 using children still in uniform to disrupt dissident activity in celebration of International Human Rights Day.

Original Text in Spanish:

Información completa sobre manipulación infantil para actos de repudio en la educación "gratuita" castrocomunista:

El pasado miércoles 11 de diciembre el profesor Peñalver de Instrucción Militar del Pre-Universitario Leonel Fraguela de Colón se reunió con los padres de los estudiantes de esa escuela para amenazarlos por no dejar ir a sus hijos a los actos de repudio contra las Damas de Blanco los domingos. Dicho profesor les dijo que perderán los puntos de la evaluación y así bajará el promedio académico y pueden hasta desaprobar el curso sin embargo los que asistan el le otorgarán los 100 puntos de promedio. Los padres se opusieron pero el profesor los amenazó con suspenderlos.

Esto ha sido en respuesta a que el domingo pasado los padres le prohibieron a sus hijos repudiar a las Damas de Blanco.