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“Enrique” will never forget the five days he spent detained in a cell at the former El Chipote torture center, where he was kidnapped in June 2018 after participating in a civic

Faced with an alarming wave of gender-based violence that has left at least 42 women murdered in Nicaragua and another 10 abroad in the first 7 months of this year alone, human

In recent days, the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo announced that it was ordering a restructuring of state jobs, meaning that a wave of layoffs is coming. The announcement worsens

On August 9, the National Council of Universities (CNU), the body that controls higher education under orders from the dictatorship, appointed Bosco Castillo as rector of the National Agrarian University (UNA). This

The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo today canceled 15 organizations, including the Caritas Diocesan Association of Matagalpa, one of the eight branches of Caritas of Nicaragua, the social pastoral of

The silence maintained by the Catholic Church in the face of constant repression against its leaders is a “complicit” silence in favor of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, denounces

Less than 72 hours after banishing a group of seven priests to the Vatican in Rome, the Ortega dictatorship continues its hunt for religious figures from the Diocese of Matagalpa. Lawyer Martha

The recent announcement of a “cleanup” of the San Juan River, which could actually be a new dredging project, has raised tensions between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, as well as generating concern

The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo grants Nicaraguan nationality to Bashar Fayez Rashid Helal, the second son of Palestinian activist Leila Kaledh. Days earlier, it had granted nationality to Bader

The Ortega-Murillo dictatorship has further strained diplomatic relations with Brazil, the most important economy in Latin America, by ordering the expulsion of that country’s ambassador from Nicaragua at the end of July,