Nicaragua

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

The two leaders are expected to discuss how the two nations can work together to strengthen economic ties through new jobs, advance democracy and promote orderly migration

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

Practices such as arbitrary detention, torture, or the use of artificial intelligence to control dissidents are common in most authoritarian regimes, according to activists gathered at the Oslo Freedom Forum

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

The new rule took effect May 11 with the expiration of a COVID-19 restriction known as Title 42 that had limited asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border

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

Gustavo Petro, Iván Duque and Juan Manuel Santos all dealt with Nicaragua’s case against the South American country at The Hague. Vice President Francia Márquez praised the ICJ ruling for paving the way to ‘improving the living conditions of the Raizal people’

The Ortega-Murillo dictatorship has struggled to rid itself of a highly inconvenient political prisoner and its most outspoken clerical critic

According to the latest survey by the CID-Gallup firm, 56% of Nicaraguans disapprove of the government, while only 16% of respondents support the Sandinistas

The Monteverde Group, formed in exile, seeks to overcome internal ideological differences and achieve ‘a peaceful solution to the dictatorship’

‘The submitted proposals are intended to question the unprecedented brutality applied by the dictatorship of Ortega and Murillo,’ claim denationalized Nicaraguan dissidents

As fear spreads, the Nicaraguan Church has become a bastion of resistance to the unprecedented onslaught of the Sandinista government

Three journalists from Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala provide a first-person account of what it’s like to continue reporting on reality despite the authoritarian onslaught in the region and the criminalization of their work

To the chagrin of the West, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva strongly defends his own position, whether that be on Venezuela or China

The former leader has taken refuge in Nicaragua, where he has been granted citizenship. He claims the sentence is ‘unfair’ and lacks evidence

Opposition groups denounce recent arrests of 18 dissidents and an alleged murder

The end of Trump’s controversial immigration rule makes way for a new regime fraught with uncertainties. Here’s what’s known about what comes next

The National Assembly has dismantled the humanitarian organization, accusing it of ‘attacks on peace and stability’ during anti-government demonstrations in 2018

As the U.S. prepares for the end of Title 42 restrictions, officials have released few details about who would be eligible for the immigration permissions known as family reunification parole