The Latest Breaking News from Nicaragua

Fear, anxiety follow Nicaraguan faith leaders into exile

Dozens of priests, nuns, seminarians and church workers have fled Nicaragua in recent years, or been exiled by President Daniel Ortega’s government, which considers them a threat

The Independent UK · Mar 9, 2023

Nicaragua shuts down business group in latest crackdown on dissent

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.

Reuters · Mar 6, 2023

Miami faith community strains to help new exiles, migrants

In the last 18 months, an estimated 250,000 migrants and asylum-seekers, mostly from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti, have arrived in the Miami area, often only on temporary legal status that doesn't allow them to work

The Independent UK · Mar 5, 2023

These dissidents had already left Nicaragua, but Ortega still felt compelled to punish them

Humberto Belli, former Nicaraguan education minister and brother of acclaimed writer Gioconda Belli, thought he had left oppression behind when he fled his home country in June 2021 after anticipating correctly that the Daniel Ortega regime was about to arrest him.

Miami Herald · Feb 17, 2023

Nicaragua strips 94 political opponents of citizenship

President Daniel Ortega intensifies his political crackdown, stripping 94 of the most prominent Nicaraguan writers, journalists and human rights activists of citizenship. They lose all their rights.

WEKU · Feb 16, 2023

Nicaragua: Ortega crackdown deepens as 94 opponents stripped of citizenship

Some of country’s most celebrated writers and journalists targeted as critics condemn ‘totalitarian drift’ under 77-year-old president

The Guardian - US · Feb 16, 2023

Nicaragua pulls citizenship of Ramirez, Belli, 92 opponents

Nicaragua has cancelled the citizenship of 94 political opponents, including writers Sergio Ramírez and Gioconda Belli

The Independent UK · Feb 16, 2023

Nicaragua strips 94 citizens of their nationality

Nicaragua's government has stripped 94 citizens of their nationality, according to a resolution read out by a judge on Wednesday.

Reuters · Feb 16, 2023

Nicaraguan political prisoners' families seek their release after others freed

The relatives of 35 political prisoners in Nicaragua called for their release on Tuesday, days after 222 others in the same category were freed and expelled to the United States following a surprise deal with Washington.

Reuters · Feb 14, 2023

U.S. makes fresh call for jailed Nicaraguan bishop's release

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Brian Nichols on Monday put fresh pressure on Nicaragua to release an anti-government bishop condemned last week to a 26-year prison sentence.

Reuters · Feb 14, 2023