A cross-regional coalition of 25 human rights organizations announced today that its prestigious human rights award will go this year to Félix Maradiaga, a leading Nicaraguan opposition politician who was… Read more »
Nicaragua’s slide into totalitarianism happened ‘gradually, then suddenly’ – to borrow a phrase from Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. But it was always predictable, analyst Christopher Sabatini writes for… Read more »
Dictators are known for their desire to stay in power. That is no different in the case of Nicaragua’s president Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, notes analyst Désirée… Read more »
The newly-elected President of Colombia, leftist Gustavo Petro, has criticized the political violence perpetrated by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. In Nicaragua there is an authoritarian drift… Read more »
Nicaraguan police this week seized control of five towns led by democratic opponents of Daniel Ortega’s regime, The Post reports. The authorities are also using money laundering legislation, the Foreign… Read more »
Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo’s corrupt and paranoid dictatorship has destroyed the Sandinista movement’s proudest achievements, notes analyst Alma Guillermoprieto. Former Sandinista insider Sergio Ramírez’s account of the events of… Read more »
“There is no democracy. Democracy has been demolished,” exiled Nicaraguan journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro tells PBS’s Nick Schifrin (above). Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega easily locked in a fourth consecutive term… Read more »
The turmoil in Nicaragua has been overshadowed by events in nearby Venezuela, Haiti and Cuba, not to mention other parts of the world, notes Nahal Toosi. But the tiny country… Read more »
Why is a government that controls the country’s armed forces and security apparatus afraid of a novel? More than four decades after the defeat of the Somoza dictatorship, Sergio Ramírez… Read more »
Faced with a political crisis and a falling economy, Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega is preparing a package of laws that could jail publishers of “fake news” and force foreign-funded groups to… Read more »