Judges in Nicaragua now answer to police under Ortega and Murillo’s rule
A circular requires courts to seek authorization to carry out seizures, property occupations, or evictions, effectively subordinating the judicial system to the regime
Bukele blames NGOs for protest outside his residence and promotes ‘foreign agents law’ to suffocate them
The Salvadoran military repressed some 300 farming families during the mobilization, an unprecedented event since the end of the civil war
An African pope, a sign of openness under consideration by the most conservative cardinals
Electing one of the 18 prelates from Africa would be a surprise, but would also impose an uncompromising agenda on moral issues
Ortega breaks silence on Trump after Washington calls the Nicaraguan regime an ‘adversary’
The Nicaraguan leader reacted to a US State Department report by sharply criticizing Washington’s immigration policies, calling them ‘horrendous crimes’
Legal status revoked, jobs gone from one day to the next: ‘I don’t know how I’m going to survive’
Jesús Jank Curbelo|Dallas|
After the Trump administration canceled humanitarian parole for around 530,000 Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan migrants, work permits were next to follow
Nicaraguan journalism (urgently) seeks allies to continue challenging the dictatorship
Néstor Arce / Carlos Herrera / Wilfredo Miranda Aburto|
In the absence of effective institutions and checks and balances, journalists in Nicaragua have become a crucial pillar of support for institutions, the opposition, and civil organizations devastated by the repression of Ortega and Murillo
Thousands of parole beneficiaries receive a government email: ‘You should depart the United States now’
The 532,000 migrants who entered the country under the protection program that President Trump has repealed have one month to return or may face ‘adverse consequences’
No freedom of movement, supervised sermons and no prayers for Nicaragua: How the Ortega-Murillo regime controls its priests
A report by the religious organization CSW reveals that the Sandinista government has deployed undercover police at masses
The US adds half a million new undocumented immigrants: ‘It’s unfair that if Biden gave me parole, Trump comes and takes it away’
Jesús Jank Curbelo / Patricia Caro / José Luis Ávila / Carla Gloria Colomé|Dallas / Washington / Mexico / New York|
The Republican administration will revoke the legal status with which hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, and Nicaragua have entered the country since 2022
In Nicaragua, Ortega and Murillo now have their legion of 76,800 paramilitaries
The ‘co-presidential’ couple has sworn in an army made up mostly of civil servants, who appear in public while wearing balaclavas. ‘I was forced to and I felt moral shame,’ one of them says
UN presents evidence implicating Nicaraguan army in crimes against humanity
The United Nations group of experts investigating the responsibilities of the Ortega and Murillo regime point to the military, which has always denied its participation in political repression
King Trump
Fernando Francia|
The question is no longer whether Trump can amend the Constitution to stay in power, but whether American democracy is strong enough to withstand the challenges of a leader with a base willing to question its limits
The drama of the end of parole: ‘You flee your country out of fear and now you’re even more afraid in the US’
Jesús Jank Curbelo|Dallas|
The Trump Administration’s proposal to revoke the legal status of humanitarian parole recipients makes thousands of Latinos vulnerable to deportation
Journalists on the verge of extinction in Nicaragua
Ten of the country’s 15 regions lack any type of journalists, who have been expelled, persecuted, or detained by the Ortega and Murillo regime
Nicaragua’s Ortega and Murillo institutionalize paramilitary groups behind the deaths of over 350 people
The new Constitution tailored by the presidential couple legitimizes the ‘volunteer police’ and gives the Sandinista flag equal status with the national one
Maduro warns he is preparing with Cuba and Nicaragua to ‘take up arms’ in the event of an intervention
The Venezuelan leader responds defiantly to the request for international action against him made by former Colombian presidents Álvaro Uribe and Iván Duque
Latin America turns its back on Maduro’s ‘fraudulent’ inauguration as president of Venezuela
Argentina said the Chavista leader clings to his position ‘by imposing himself through fear, aggression, murder and prison.’ Other large countries, on the political left and right, also refused to recognize him as a legitimate leader
The ordeal of kidney patients in Cuba: ‘If you want your daughter to live, you have to get her out of the country’
Faced with a dire shortage of medicines, supplies and medical personnel despite the authorities’ claims about the quality of Cuban healthcare, many patients are considering migrating just to survive. Others cannot afford to even think about it
Lawyers receive an avalanche of migrants concerned by Trump’s promises
Law firms and immigrant advocacy organizations report a significant rise in consultations following the Republican’s election victory
‘Families broken by a dictatorship’: Christmas exacerbates the trauma of separation among Nicaraguans
More than 900,000 people have left Nicaragua since 2018 due to political persecution, the economic crisis and exile. In a country of just over six million inhabitants, almost every family has a loved one who is missing
US trade office launches probe into abuses by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo regime in Nicaragua
The Biden administration announces it will investigate human and labor rights violations, opening door to a suspension from the CAFTA-DR free trade agreement
Nicaragua’s Ortega and Murillo consolidate their power over the army and the police
The reform of the Military Code and the National Police Law subordinate the armed forces to the presidential couple’s wishes, just days after a constitutional change that protects their succession
Republican offensive against CHNV parole: Fraud, human trafficking and other violations
The Biden administration’s program, which has allowed legal entry to more than 531,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, is in Trump’s crosshairs
The solitude of Nicolás Maduro
Venezuela’s president traveled to Kazan in search of legitimacy, but returns without joining the bloc of countries aligned against the West and amid a diplomatic war with Brazil that further complicates his role in the international community
The latest attack by the Cuban government against independent journalists: Interrogations, threats, confiscations and exile
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
Humberto Ortega, former Sandinista military strategist persecuted by the Ortega-Murillo regime, dies
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
Dora María Téllez: ‘We must act for Nicaragua once more’
Max Granger|
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