Nicaraguan Perspectives

Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua (GHREN) of the United Nations identify the chain of command in human rights violations and recommends “judicial investigations” La Prensa, Feb 29, 2024…

“Freedom” in exchange for banishment: how Ortega exchanges one arbitrary act for another In La Prensa, January 15, 2024 Even though the release of 19 priests from prison, including bishops…

Even though the Ortega regime has now released the two bishops and 17 priests unjustly jailed- in fact, banishing them from the country and stripping them of their citizenship- this…

In light of the wave of attacks against the Church in the last days of 2023 which involved the jailing of a bishop, fourteen priests and seminarians, this letter urges…

“All the priests that pray for him are arrested.” The method of the dictatorship for the Church to forget Mons. Álvarez In La Prensa, Dec 26, 2023 In recent weeks…

Ortega also attacks Evangelical Churches: More than 200 NGOs closed December 8, 2023 in Nicaragua Investiga The dictatorship in Nicaragua has arbitrarily cancelled 342 religious organizations in recent years, within…

Regime attempts to impose religión without religious In La Prensa, Dec 5, 2023 The Nicaragua Nunca + Human Rights Collective presented new documentation about attacks on the Catholic Church The…

When  Sheynnis Palacios, won the Miss Universe contest on November 18th, it was the first time a Central American, much less a Nicaraguan, had won. The story dominated the news…