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The Central Bank of Nicaragua reported that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 2021 totaled 1,470.1 million dollars, which represents 10.5% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), representing an increase of 52.7% (507.2

Amnesty International (AI) denounced that journalists, human rights defenders and health professionals “continued to face a hostile environment” in 2021 in Nicaragua, and that the regime headed by Sandinista Daniel Ortega “arbitrarily”

A memorandum signed last March 28 by Leopoldo Rivas Alfaro, national coordinator of attention to “historical Sandinism”, which announced the deactivation of that movement after smoothing out rough edges and joining “the

The United Nations (UN) will decide by vote on the resolution on the creation of a mechanism made up of international and independent experts with the mandate to establish “accountability for the

The initiative to reform the General Law of Education and the Law of Autonomy of Higher Education Institutions (IES) promoted by Ortega in the National Assembly, excludes the Central American University (UCA)

Costa Rica will hold the second round of the presidential elections next Sunday, April 3, in which former president José María Figueres, of the historic National Liberation Party (PLN), will face off

Sources linked to the Sandinista Front in San Juan del Sur confirmed the arrest by the Police of former Sandinista mayor Gerardo Miranda on Monday, March 27, who was transferred to the

Francisco Guerrero, Secretary for Strengthening Democracy at the Organization of American States (OAS), described Arturo McFields’ complaint to the organization as an “unprecedented event.” The delegate of the regional entity assured that

René Alexander Maltez Rivas was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the femicide against the medical student Cheyling Rachelly Munguía, whom the subject murdered on June 7, 2021. The 22-year-old had

“Deactivate historic Sandinism” is the new order of the Daniel Ortega regime, according to a statement circulating on social networks. The writing attributed to the call National Commission for Attention to Sandinism,