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The efforts made by Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), to convince the Daniel Ortega regime to accept the visit of a high-level commission of the regional

The Ministry of Health (Minsa), in its first report in 2022, registered 39 positive cases of covid-19, the fourth lowest number of infections since the first case was detected in the country.

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg decided to suspend its diplomatic activities in Managua as of February 1, 2022, a day after its current charge d’affaires Joe Geisbusch ends his mission in the

Nicaragua closed 2021 with slight progress in access to information and transparency related to the covid-19 pandemic, despite commitments with multilateral organizations that urged to disclose data on the pandemic. According to

After 45 days, the Daniel Ortega regime agreed to allow political prisoners – captured between June and November 2021 – to receive, in groups, a visit from their relatives on New Year’s

Three days after making a public complaint about the alleged aggression of a drunken senior police chief against the political prisoner Ana Margarita Vijil, supposedly occurred in her cell at dawn on

In his first homily in 2022, the auxiliary bishop of Managua, Monsignor Silvio José Báez, criticized the “tyrants who subdue and oppress” the people, in order to “secure themselves in power”, and

The independent monitoring of the COVID-19 Citizen Observatory registers an accumulated of 31,326 suspected infections of the coronavirus during the two years of the pandemic. 61% of these infections, more than 19,200,

In 2021, Nicaragua stood out as one of the countries on the continent that restricted freedom of the press and expression, becoming “a bad example”, which was replicated by other countries in

More than 120,000 Nicaraguans left the country in 2021, a year marked by increased repression, the stagnation of an economy in crisis and an uncertain future, after unknown votes by most countries