Nicaraguan Perspectives

Although this article is now 3 weeks old, we publish it here because it provides in one place a good summary of the attacks of the Ortega regime against the…

In the last week there was a striking shakeup within the Supreme Court which rippled through the Judicial Branch, surprising in the sense that it has been known to be…

What will happen to the El Tepeyac Shrine and the Franciscans, after the elimination of the legal status of the Franciscan Order? In La Prensa, October 25, 2023 The confiscation…

CPC [Citizen Power Committees] threaten Nicaraguans with “jail or exile”  La Prensa, Oct 18, 2023  CALIDH [Interamerican Human Rights Legal Assistance Center] received denouncements that police officials as well as…

News reports as of October 10 report that six Nicaraguan priests were arrested in the last week, most of them from the Diocese of Estelí. Unofficial reports from within Nicaragua…

Universities of the Society of Jesus: they urge stopping Ortega who betrayed the trust of Nicaraguans in the Sandinistas The educational organization recalled that since 2018 Nicaragua has lived “under…

This day marks the 5th anniversary of the press release by the Police which prohibited public demonstrations against the government. This was followed by other measures mentioned in the article…

This joint statement of dissident Nicaraguan organizations both inside the country and in exile were motivated by the inflammatory statements made by the Chief of the Nicaraguan Army, General Julio Cesar…

Since 2018 the Nicaraguan government has forced the closing of more than 50 media outlets and jailed dozens of journalists, forcing many others into exile. So today there is not…

The spokesperson which the Jesuits have designated to deal with issues relating to the Nicaraguan confiscation of the UCA and other Jesuit assets is a very experienced Jesuit, Fr. José…