Nicaraguan authorities closed down the country's largest business association on Monday, the latest blow in a years-long crackdown on any opposition to the government of President Daniel Ortega.
Once a key business player and ally of the increasingly authoritarian Ortega, the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (COSEP) has in recent years become a target of the former Marxist rebel's entrenched government.
The government stripped COSEP of its legal status in resolutions published on Monday in the government's official bulletin, blaming bureaucratic shortcomings.
