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
Laureano and Camilia Ortega Murillo gave political speeches praising their parents and ranting against their foes. They spoke of a ‘multipolar world,’ the country’s ‘creative economy,’ and the end of ‘the global U.S. dollar dictatorship’
Political opponents, activists and journalists were detained and charged with crimes against the regime as part of a repressive strategy that seeks to force them into exile
Under the agreement, Mexico will continue to accept migrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua who are turned away at the border
The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross for Mexico and Central America warns about the disproportionate use of force against migrants. In a conversation with EL PAÍS, he lays out the measures that the authorities must take to avoid further tragedies
The Nicaraguan leadership banned processions and other traditions during Easter with the police presence redoubled ahead of the April 18 fifth anniversary of widespread social protests
The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has also expelled a priest from Panama, and has cancelled several other Catholic Church events
The Ortega-Murillo regime further isolates itself by cutting diplomatic relations with the Vatican and aligning itself with other pariah states
The success of the conference lies in its acceptance that while governments in the region do not share the same ideology, they share a common destiny
