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UNHCR: “Depriving someone of their nationality will never be justified”

The Agency of the United Nations Organization for Refugees (UNHCR) joined the list of international organizations in regretting and rejecting the cancellation of Nicaraguan nationality to 317 citizens. “It is truly worrying

February 21, 2023

Nicaragua

San Miguelito maintains operations on the carnival route

The Health Region in San Miguelito, maintains sanitary and biosafety measures, in order that food handlers comply with the standards and provisions required by the Ministry of Health, to guarantee the health

February 21, 2023

Panama

More than five thousand patients treated at the Social Security Fund during Green Alert

Five thousand two hundred and seventy-nine patients have been treated, nationwide, at the facilities of the Social Security Fund, during the Green Alert of Operation Alpha Carnival 2023. Common morbidity registered the

February 21, 2023

Panama

Has your family been able to see you? Cenidh demands to know the status of Monsignor Álvarez in jail

The Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) demands to know the state of the Bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa, Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, as well as the priests Manuel Salvador García and

February 21, 2023

Nicaragua

50 people have been apprehended at checkpoints on the Cinta Costera for having pending cases

More than 600 prohibited items such as knives, razors, bottles and others are confiscated at the access and control points established by the National Police along the Cinta Costera. Commissioner Elmer Caballero

February 21, 2023

Panama

They apprehend a Panamanian in Spain for the crime of money laundering.

This afternoon, Monday, February 20, Spanish authorities confirmed to Interpol Panama about the capture of Jaime Powell Rodríguez alias “Yunya.” The capture of the Panamanian occurs through an operation against crimes of

February 21, 2023

Panama

Ortega kept imprisoned opponents with plastic ties until the last moment

The now released politician Juan Sebastián Chamorro stated that the transfer from the torture cells of “El Nuevo Chipote” to the Augusto C. Sandino International Airport was the “most distressing” moment of

February 20, 2023

Nicaragua

Imprisoned, exiled and “stateless”: The mechanisms of persecution in Venezuela and Nicaragua

The government of Daniel Ortega, in Nicaragua, sentenced 222 dissidents to exile, but also stripped them of their nationality for considering them “traitors to the homeland.” It used the ruling of a

February 20, 2023

Nicaragua

Former presidents criticize the “silence” of the region in the face of repressive actions by the Ortega dictatorship

A group of 22 former presidents of Latin America, members of the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA), lamented the “silence” of the region in the face of violations of

February 20, 2023

Nicaragua

From the torture of confinement to the pain of exile

When excited I approached to hug Miguel Mendoza and I saw his astonished face, I realized that, for him, I was a perfect stranger. But for me, his name had become the

February 20, 2023

Nicaragua

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