Nicaragua

Some 150 Cuban reporters have gone into exile over the past two years in the face of a witch hunt where authorities use the Penal Code to pursue the media considered contrary to their interests

The former guerrilla who became head of the Sandinista Popular Army was a feared and respected figure in Nicaragua in the 1980s. Fallen into disgrace and at odds with Vice President Rosario Murillo, he died at the age of 77 from heart complications while under house arrest by order of the presidential couple

The ‘Commander Two’ of the Sandinista revolution, today a fierce critic of the Ortega-Murillo regime, talks to EL PAÍS from exile about her life after prison and the struggle against authoritarianism in Central America

The regime has reformed the Cyber Crime Law to increase prison sentences and prosecute alleged crimes on social media, the last bastion of freedom of expression and press in the country

In an interview with EL PAÍS, the Guatemalan president talks about his commitment to transparency in a country plagued by impunity and explains the reasons that led him to receive 135 political prisoners from Nicaragua

The Ortega and Murillo regime is staying silent and refusing to release the official list of the formerly incarcerated individuals who were sent to the South American country. The operation was carried out in total secrecy by the U.S. embassy in Managua

Washington reported the release of ‘unjustly detained’ dissidents under the Ortega and Murillo regime, who were sent to Guatemala and welcomed by the government of Bernardo Arévalo

Following an investigation launched in July that confirmed massive irregularities in the program, new measures have been imposed to avoid fraud

In a country dominated by authoritarianism and poor economic prospects, the population can only cover half a basket of basic goods, according to a report by Hagamos Democracia

Illegal trade is endangering two-thirds of key habitats for 196 species. A new study explains how prohibitionist policies lead to deforestation

The Sandinista regime becomes the first government in the West, and the second in the world, to appoint an ambassador before the authorities of the fundamentalist group that controls Afghanistan

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 retired Sandinista general and brother of President Daniel Ortega has again launched criticism of the authoritarian Nicaraguan administration and questioned its ability to establish a succession based around the figure of the ‘co-president’

The new director of Amnesty International in the Americas has criticized the use of the military and heavy-handed measures to combat crime in the region: ‘The Armed Forces are not trained to ensure public safety’

Born in Venezuela, she is the first Latin American woman to head the Washington-based human rights advocacy group WOLA. In this interview, she talks about democratic backsliding in the region

Six years after the massive protests of 2018, the system remains unchanged, political violence has increased and all opposition groups and dissenting voices have been silenced

The Interior Ministry has created a registry of producers and warned them against ‘intervening, financing or promoting’ issues that concern internal or external politics

The president, who began his political career under the wing of the leftist group, now wants to erase it from the political map, but analysts see a ‘rescue of the party’s revolutionary principles’ as possible

In the past year, repression has expanded to large swaths of society with a focus on ‘incapacitating any kind of opposition in the long term’, said the UN panel

‘Now they are Yankees, they must be very happy to be Yankees,’ said the Nicaraguan president of the dissidents who have been stripped of their nationality

The Legal Defense Unit (UDJ) – a local NGO – denounces the ‘coordinated action that reveals the instrumentalization of the state apparatus to repress’ prisoners for political reasons

Experts question the lack of ethics and transparency in the content produced by the Mexican YouTuber and other influencers, warning that a large number of followers does not signal that someone is a trusted source

A year after being stripped of her nationality and her property — along with 93 other people — the former Sandinista guerrilla and politician is now exiled in Costa Rica. She tells EL PAÍS that the current Nicaraguan regime is ‘exploitative, misogynistic and colonialist’