The International Day to Fight Violence against Women arrives with more repression and impunity
This is the fifth consecutive year under a police state that women cannot take to the streets to demonstrate against the repression they face.
HAVANA TIMES – The Autonomous Women’s Movement of Nicaragua (MAM) denounced that Nicaragua arrives at the International Day to Fight Violence against Women, this November 25, with more repression and impunity for the perpetrators as a consequence of serious violations of fundamental rights and freedoms that the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo continues to execute.
The movement reproached the Ortega regime for keeping prohibited the rights to organization, assembly and freedom of expression. This is the fifth consecutive year that women do not take to the streets, as part of the commemoration of the second important activity of the year, in addition to March 8th, International Women’s Day.
“We live in a Nicaragua, where violence and serious violations of fundamental rights and freedoms continue, where organizing, expressing an opinion or demonstrating is prohibited,” MAM said in a statement.
The women’s movement also stressed that although the official discourse of the dictatorship aims to “sell the false image” that