Nicaragua

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

The winner is a 23-year-old communicologist and says she wants to work to promote mental health after suffering debilitating bouts of anxiety herself

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

Regional leaders are more concerned with lessening the impact on their own nations than complying with pressure from the Biden administration to keep migration levels in check

After several political prisoners were released and exiled back in February, arrests have accelerated again. The Central American country is sinking into unstoppable repression

The two talked about deepening U.S.-Costa Rica trade tries, creating new jobs and advancing democracy in addition to promoting a more orderly immigration process

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