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Ex-prisoner tells diplomats Nicaragua holding families 'hostage'

"I said I would hand myself in, but the police kicked down the gate," Tamara Davila, a formerly jailed Nicaraguan activist on Wednesday told regional diplomats looking into allegations of abuses by President Daniel Ortega's government.

Reuters

Vatican closes embassy in Nicaragua after Ortega's crackdown

The Vatican has closed its embassy in Nicaragua after the country's government proposed suspending diplomatic relations

The Independent UK

Foreign policy of Brazil’s Lula takes shape, irking the West

Brazil’s new President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has so far shown little concern about defying consensus in the West on foreign policy -- even when it comes to dealing with authoritarian governments

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Pope marks 10 years with podcast and a diplomatic row

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis marked 10 years as head of the Catholic Church on Monday with a podcast, a private mass and a series of interviews, one of which triggered a diplomatic spat with Nicaragua.

Bangkok Post

Nicaragua proposes suspending Vatican ties after comments

Nicaragua ’s government says it has proposed suspending relations with the Vatican days after Pope Francis compared President Daniel Ortega’s administration to a communist or Nazi dictatorship amid a crackdown on the Catholic Church in the country

The Independent UK

Nicaragua cuts links over unpalatable papal line

Nicaragua looks to be closing down diplomatic ties with the Vatican after the Pope likened the embattled country to a dictatorship.

The New Daily

Fear, anxiety follow Nicaraguan faith leaders into exile

Dozens of priests, nuns, seminarians and church workers have fled Nicaragua in recent years, or been exiled by President Daniel Ortega’s government, which considers them a threat

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Nicaragua shuts down business group in latest crackdown on dissent

Nicaraguan authorities closed down the country's largest business association on Monday, the latest blow in a years-long crackdown on any opposition to the government of President Daniel Ortega.

Reuters

UN rights group says Nicaragua executed 40 people

A U.N. human rights groups said the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega executed at least 40 people and ordered hospitals not to treat demonstrators wounded in antigovernment protests

The Independent UK

Fleeing Nicaraguans a boon to economy back home

Remittances to Nicaraguans sent home last year surged 50%, a massive jump that analysts say is directly related to the thousands of Nicaraguans who emigrated to the U.S. in the past two years

The Independent UK

I assisted Carter’s work encouraging democracy – and saw how his experience, persistence and engineer’s mindset helped build a freer Latin America over decades

When former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter founded the nonprofit Carter Center in 1982, one of their goals was to help Latin American countries – many of which were emerging from decades of military dictatorship – transition to democracies.

The Conversation

Colombia slams Nicaragua's Ortega over expulsion of critics

Colombia's leftist government on Thursday blasted Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's expulsion of hundreds of prominent critics earlier this month and called for international monitoring and a criminal inquiry, according to a statement by the Colombian foreign ministry.

Reuters

Opponents describe hideous conditions in Nicaraguan prisons

Constant fear

The Independent UK

These dissidents had already left Nicaragua, but Ortega still felt compelled to punish them

Humberto Belli, former Nicaraguan education minister and brother of acclaimed writer Gioconda Belli, thought he had left oppression behind when he fled his home country in June 2021 after anticipating correctly that the Daniel Ortega regime was about to arrest him.

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Nicaragua strips 94 political opponents of citizenship

President Daniel Ortega intensifies his political crackdown, stripping 94 of the most prominent Nicaraguan writers, journalists and human rights activists of citizenship. They lose all their rights.

The Guardian - US

Nicaragua: Ortega crackdown deepens as 94 opponents stripped of citizenship

Some of country’s most celebrated writers and journalists targeted as critics condemn ‘totalitarian drift’ under 77-year-old president

The Independent UK

Nicaragua pulls citizenship of Ramirez, Belli, 92 opponents

Nicaragua has cancelled the citizenship of 94 political opponents, including writers Sergio Ramírez and Gioconda Belli

Reuters

Nicaragua strips 94 citizens of their nationality

Nicaragua's government has stripped 94 citizens of their nationality, according to a resolution read out by a judge on Wednesday.

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Nicaraguan political prisoners' families seek their release after others freed

The relatives of 35 political prisoners in Nicaragua called for their release on Tuesday, days after 222 others in the same category were freed and expelled to the United States following a surprise deal with Washington.

The Independent UK

Nicaragua's vote to strip opponents of citizenship

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has sent 222 political leaders, priests, students, activists and other dissidents to the United States, whose release was long demanded by the international community

Reuters

U.S. makes fresh call for jailed Nicaraguan bishop's release

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Brian Nichols on Monday put fresh pressure on Nicaragua to release an anti-government bishop condemned last week to a 26-year prison sentence.

The Independent UK

Pope Francis calls on Nicaragua to ‘open its heart’ over jailing of prominent government critic

The jailing of Bishop Rolando Alvarez marks ‘the most severe repression against the Catholic Church in Latin America’ in two decades

The Guardian - US

Nicaragua’s prisoners flew to freedom – but Ortega’s not going anywhere

Joy and relief greeted the freed political detainees as they landed in the US but has Nicaragua’s autocratic ruler merely removed his biggest problem?

The Independent UK

Pope worried about Nicaraguan bishop sentenced to 26 years

Pope Francis on Sunday expressed sadness and worry at the news that Roman Catholic Bishop Roland Álvarez, an outspoken critic of the Nicaraguan government, had been sentenced to 26 years in prison in the latest move against the Catholic Church and government opponents

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