Nicaragua police detain another opposition presidential candidate | Nicaragua News
Arturo Cruz was detained after the opposition presidential candidate Christiana Chamorro was placed under house arrest for three days.
The Nicaraguan police detained the opposition politician Arturo Cruz, detained the second presidential candidate in less than a week, and in November President Daniel Ortega sought to maintain his power. Control the election before escalating the battle.
According to his assistants, Cruz is an academic who served as Nicaragua’s ambassador to the United States from 2007 to 2009, and was detained after arriving at Managua Airport from Washington DC on Saturday.
The prosecutor’s office said in a statement that the national police is investigating Cruz on the grounds that “he attacked Nicaraguan society with strong evidence”.
Colombia President Seeks To Defuse Crisis Through Dialogue
05/08/21 AT 6:58 AM
Facing anti-government protests that have spiraled into deadly violence, Colombian President Ivan Duque is holding a series of talks with his political foes in search of a way out of the crisis.
The right-wing leader whose approval rating is just 33 percent has faced occasional mass protests since taking office in August 2018. But the current unrest has quickly bubbled into an open challenge to his administration just over a year before his term ends.
After meeting on Friday with members of the opposition, Duque tweeted that it was a great opportunity for dialogue, overcoming differences and without political point-scoring.
OAS Secretary General urges immediate release of POWs captured during recent Artsakh war | ARMENPRESS Armenian News Agency
11:35, 22 February, 2021
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 22, ARMENPRESS. Secretary General of the Organization of American States Luis Almagro urges to immediately release prisoners of war and civilians captured during the recent Nagorno Karabakh war.
He made a post on Twitter about his recent telephone conversation with Foreign Minister of Armenia Ara Aivazian. “I spoke with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Ara Aivazian on cooperation between that country & OAS and the humanitarian situation in Artsakh. We urge immediate release of prisoners of war and civilians captured during the recent war”, the OAS chief said.