Nicaragua

The Sandinista Government grants asylum to ex-Panamanian president and convicted money launderer Ricardo Martinelli, the latest in a long line of fugitives

Opponents of Ortega’s Sandinista regime have been stripped of their nationality and are trying to start over thousands of miles from home: ‘I will not let Ortega and Murillo steal my dreams’

In an upcoming book, the released German-Colombian former drug lord addresses dirty money in political campaigns, the pacts made between the Medellín Cartel and the guerrillas, as well as the complicity of the governments of Nicaragua, Cuba and Panama in the drug trade

The brutal repression of the regime — led by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo — has crushed the opposition and sent many into exile. From Managua, EL PAÍS reports on how the ruling couple has spread fear in Nicaraguan society, turning their critics into ghosts

Speaking before thousands at the Vatican, the head of the Catholic Church denounced the detention of 13 priests and two seminarians by Daniel Ortega’s regime

At least 13 priests and two seminarians were arrested between December 20 and 30 in Nicaragua, among them Monsignors Carlos Avilés, Silvio Fonseca, Miguel Mántica, and Father Pablo Villafranca

The detention of Bishop Isidro Mora is the latest attack in the country, which also recently expelled a group of priests being held as political prisoners

The ruling Sandinista apparatus has redoubled its persecution of the Catholic Church. The detention of Mora Ortega is the second such move against a religious leader after Rolando Álvarez was jailed last year

Two centuries after the speech that inaugurated the United States’ policy toward the region, five Democratic lawmakers call for an end to the Cuban embargo and the declassification of secret CIA files, as well as reforms to the IMF and the OAS

The organization issued a statement detailing only that they are closing operations ‘at the request of the authorities.’ The end of their humanitarian work leaves political prisoners completely unprotected

Lino Antonio Rojas and Yudith Pérez returned to the island in November after a two-year journey that took them to Russia, Serbia, Greece, Turkey and Nicaragua as the goal of crossing the U.S. border became more distant every day

Karen Celebertti has been accused of intentionally rigging contests so that anti-government beauty queens would win as part of a plot to overthrow the government

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

The arrival of Venezuelans on the Honduran border has multiplied. So far this year, almost 500,000 people have crossed through the dense rainforest of the Colombia-Panama border, double the number from the previous number year

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