{"id":167854,"date":"2025-06-01T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T06:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/sin-categoria\/testimonies-against-lies-the-new-documentary-released-by-confidencial\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T17:27:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T23:27:54","slug":"testimonies-against-lies-the-new-documentary-released-by-confidencial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/english\/testimonies-against-lies-the-new-documentary-released-by-confidencial\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimonies against lies, the new documentary released by CONFIDENCIAL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cLet’s go all out,\u201d was the decisive order that circulated on April 19, 2018, throughout the Sandinista Front and government apparatus in Nicaragua. Its objective: suppress citizen protests that marked a civic awakening in the country. Hours later, a massacre began that left more than 350 dead in less than six months. Seven years later, the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo continues attempting to erase that memory through lies. <\/p>\n\n

But the testimonies of the mothers who lost their children, the young people who took cover under gunfire and the hundreds of thousands who marched for democracy challenge the official narrative in a documentary that CONFIDENCIAL<\/strong> premiered on Sunday, June 1, 2025, on its YouTube channel<\/a>, where its audiovisual productions are transmitted, due to the television censorship imposed in the country.<\/p>\n\n

The documentary, titled \u201cThe Memory of the Rebellion in Nicaragua: Testimonies Against the Silence<\/strong>\u201d, tells the story of a rebellion that the regime tried to silence with extreme violence, and recounts how the dictatorship seeks to rewrite history while continuing to kill, imprison, and exile those who dare to remember the truth.<\/p>\n\n

The Official Lie About the April Rebellion<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

Seven years later, the regime continues to celebrate the dismantling of the \u201croadblocks\u201d and insists on its narrative of an attempted coup. In every public appearance, Ortega repeats his version of events: that Nicaragua was a peaceful country before 2018, that there was a strong alliance with the private sector, that they were doing the best for the people. According to him, the problem was an \u201cimperialist conspiracy,\u201d \u201cgarbage\u201d bishops, and \u201ctraitors to the homeland.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

\u201cProtests began, and we didn\u2019t repress them\u2014we let them march,\u201d Ortega falsely claimed in a speech on May 24, 2025.<\/p>\n\n

At another point, the dictator again mentioned police officers and Sandinista militants killed during the protests but ignored the hundreds of deaths caused by the regime\u2019s shoot-to-kill orders given to police, paramilitaries, and the Army. That order also claimed the lives of 19 minors<\/a>, including a 14-month-old baby in his father\u2019s arms. <\/p>\n\n

Murillo, for her part, spent the entire month of April hurling insults at the opposition, the rebelling public, businesspeople, students, and the Catholic Church\u2014all wrapped in talk of love, victories, and God. <\/p>\n\n

\u201cSeven years since the massacres,\u201d said Murillo on April 1. \u201cSeven years since the unforgivable nights and days of terror, since the supreme betrayal of the homeland and the people. Seven years since the unjustifiable attack of hatred, cruelty, and ambition.\u201d She then claimed that in Nicaragua \u201cpeace reigns, which is the great victory.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

Now imposed as \u201cco-president,\u201d<\/a> Murillo also celebrated the success of the official lie and the mass exile caused by political persecution: \u201cThey wander, aimless, across the world, because that\u2019s what they deserve. They have no homeland, no character, no love, they don\u2019t know love. (\u2026) How it hurts them, how it burns, when we remind them of their failures, their defeat (\u2026) Those born traitors, the unworthy, the cowards, the vandals, lackeys, slaves of the imperialists, they are not Nicaraguans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Testimonies in CONFIDENCIAL\u2019s Documentary<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

The CONFIDENCIAL<\/strong> documentary gathers the voices of mothers and relatives of the murdered, young people who barricaded themselves in universities and neighborhoods, and activists who keep historical memory alive.<\/p>\n\n

These are testimonies of how a self-organized movement against Social Security reforms became a nationwide demand for change in the face of violent repression\u2014amplifying the national cry of \u201cJustice, freedom, and democracy.\u201d The film also records the figures of repression and massacre, verified by international organizations such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the UN Group of Experts: <\/p>\n\n