Over the past 12 months, Managua has received more than 1,000 flights with migrants from countries such as Libya, Morocco, Uzbekistan, India and Tajikistan. Upon landing, they begin different routes to reach the U.S.-Mexico border
The persecution of any type of opposition to the Ortega-Murillo regime has made the winner of the Miss Universe pageant a target for attacks
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
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
As fear spreads, the Nicaraguan Church has become a bastion of resistance to the unprecedented onslaught of the Sandinista government
An investigation by the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua finds the presidential couple and government officials culpable of the repression that began with the 2018 crackdown
The Nicaraguan justice system has also stripped journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro, Bishop Silvio Báez, feminist Sofía Montenegro and human rights defender Vilma Núñez of their citizenship
The legendary guerilla commander from the days of Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution spoke to EL PAÍS about her time as a political prisoner in Managua’s feared El Chipote jail
The sentence is the longest given to any of Ortega’s opponents over the last couple of years
The 222 political prisoners held by the Daniel Ortega regime and sent to the US have been stripped of their nationality. ‘Nobody will take being Nicaraguan away from me’
The Nicaraguan leader said it was his wife and vice-president, Rosario Murillo, who contacted the US Embassy in Managua to request the transfer of 222 dissidents to Washington
The millionaire businessman and former army chief has presented himself as a strategist and conciliatory figure within the Sandinista regime, despite disagreements with his brother, President Daniel Ortega
