Daniel Ortega

The Sandinista Government grants asylum to ex-Panamanian president and convicted money launderer Ricardo Martinelli, the latest in a long line of fugitives

Opponents of Ortega’s Sandinista regime have been stripped of their nationality and are trying to start over thousands of miles from home: ‘I will not let Ortega and Murillo steal my dreams’

The brutal repression of the regime — led by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo — has crushed the opposition and sent many into exile. From Managua, EL PAÍS reports on how the ruling couple has spread fear in Nicaraguan society, turning their critics into ghosts

Speaking before thousands at the Vatican, the head of the Catholic Church denounced the detention of 13 priests and two seminarians by Daniel Ortega’s regime

At least 13 priests and two seminarians were arrested between December 20 and 30 in Nicaragua, among them Monsignors Carlos Avilés, Silvio Fonseca, Miguel Mántica, and Father Pablo Villafranca

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