Daniel Ortega

The journalist and editor Manuel Florentín has published a chronicle of the persecution that totalitarian regimes have perpetrated against intellectuals and creators, from Lenin’s Soviet Union to Ortega’s Nicaragua

The detention of Bishop Isidro Mora is the latest attack in the country, which also recently expelled a group of priests being held as political prisoners

The ruling Sandinista apparatus has redoubled its persecution of the Catholic Church. The detention of Mora Ortega is the second such move against a religious leader after Rolando Álvarez was jailed last year

The organization issued a statement detailing only that they are closing operations ‘at the request of the authorities.’ The end of their humanitarian work leaves political prisoners completely unprotected

Karen Celebertti has been accused of intentionally rigging contests so that anti-government beauty queens would win as part of a plot to overthrow the government

A non-profit run by exiles has produced ‘Freedom behind bars,’ a book that compiles the stories of 11 female survivors of the regime’s notorious penitentiary system

The Sandinista apparatus, accused of frequent human rights violations, condemned the organization for aligning with the United States

The tireless human rights advocate has become the scourge of the Ortega-Murillo regime in Nicaragua

The regional body, known by its initials OAS, has long criticized rights violations under Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega

Judges, secretaries, janitors, chauffeurs and even President Daniel Ortega’s first-born son have all been summarily sent home by the ‘co-president’

After the protests in 2022 were violently put down, with some 355 people killed and hundreds imprisoned, the government silenced institutions he perceived as supporting the protesters

The Sandinista regime is making millions from the mass influx of desperate travelers trying to make it to the United States

After several political prisoners were released and exiled back in February, arrests have accelerated again. The Central American country is sinking into unstoppable repression

In 2021, the Sandinista government seized her passport, blocking her from seeking cancer treatment abroad. Despite her illness, she continued to demand the release of her family members

Ortega jailed dozens of opposition figures in order to win a fourth consecutive term in 2021 elections that were broadly criticized as a farce

The group is a place for exiled women to share their needs and pain. Since 2018, the Costa Rican government has received more than 200,000 refugee applications

Nicaragua is preparing to sign a new deal with its Asian partner after breaking ties with Taiwan in December 2021

The Sandinista regime is trying to shut down the loud demands for the release of the Catholic leader by bringing in Cash Luna, a pastor with links to drug trafficking, to Nicaragua

Nicaragua’s presidential couple, Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, is promoting feast-day celebrations across the country while repression against Catholicism continues apace

Income from family remittances in 2022 stood at close to $2.5 billion, a figure that is forecast to double in 2023 with 725,000 people having fled the country in five years

The United Nations Green Climate Fund has blocked $116.6 million in funding, while the Central American Bank for Economic Integration has pushed back the delivery of a $3.5 billion loan

The State Department warns that it ‘will consider all available tools to deter and disrupt anti-democratic activity’ in Central American countries

Daniel Ortega’s regime is close to Moscow and has an autocratic track record; it prevented a unanimous statement on the invasion, but the Central American nation stands alone