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Nicaragua

June 2024

  • A small yellowish songbird perched on a log

    The age of extinction
    Rare birds at risk as narco-gangs move into forests to evade capture – report

    Cocaine traffickers have put two-thirds of Central America’s key habitats for threatened birds under threat, study finds

May 2024

  • Graffiti on concrete that reads 'No canal'

    Nicaragua cancels Chinese plan for controversial canal 10 years on

    Critics said proposal to build canal linking Atlantic and Pacific would endanger environment and rural communities

April 2024

  • Judge Nawaf Salam stands amongst other judges of the International court of justice

    ICJ rejects request to order Germany to stop selling arms to Israel

    Nicaragua brought plea to court, arguing sales of weapons make Berlin complicit in alleged war crimes
  • Tania von Uslar-Gleichen and Christian Tams, representing Germany, at the hearing on Nicaragua's claim that Germany aids Israel's genocide in Gaza, at the ICJ on Monday 8 April.

    Israel’s security at core of German foreign policy due to Holocaust, ICJ hears

    Nicaragua asks UN’s highest court to halt German weapons sales to Israel, alleging it is breaching obligation to prevent genocide
  • Steve Crawshaw

    The world court will rule on Germany’s support for Israel. That shows how geopolitics has changed

    Steve Crawshaw
    Western governments could once be confident of protecting their friends. Nicaragua’s case shows those days are gone, says Steve Crawshaw, former UK director at Human Rights Watch

February 2024

  • A woman spray-paints ‘Freedom for political prisoners’ in Managua, Nicaragua, in 2020.

    Nicaragua oppression is ‘tantamount to crimes against humanity’, says report

    UN-backed human rights experts decry the crackdown on dissent by President Daniel Ortega’s administration

January 2024

  • Gendarmes patrol by the plane grounded by police based that it could be carrying trafficking victims, at the Vary airport , Monday, Dec. 25, 2023 in Vatry, eastern France. A charter plane carrying 303 Indians to Nicaragua was authorized Sunday to leave a French airport where it has been grounded for four days for a human trafficking investigation. A lawyer for the airline said the plane is taking many of the stranded passengers back to India on Monday. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

    Plane detained in France sheds light on Nicaragua’s role in US migrant crisis

    Flight contained 303 Indians en route to Central American country whose light visa requirements have attracted US-bound travelers

December 2023

  • Colombian authorities speak with a young boy at an airport setting.

    Two Guinean children abandoned in Bogotá airport as migrant routes shift

    Migration through the treacherous Darién gap is slowing as less restrictive air routes open up between South and Central America
  • Miss Nicaragua, Sheynnis Palacios, is crowned as Miss Universe 2023 in San Salvador, El Salvador

    Miss Nicaragua pageant director quits after police accuse her of treason

    Karen Celebertti retires weeks after Nicaragua’s contestant, who took part in protests in 2018, was crowned Miss Universe
  • Sheynnis Palacios, who was crowned the 72nd Miss Universe last month. Her humble origins have resonated with many Nicaraguans.

    Nicaragua’s Miss Universe emerges as symbol of defiance against Ortega regime

    ‘Nervous’ government has cracked down on celebrations for Sheynnis Palacios in country where ‘repression is absolute’

November 2023

  • An entire forested island in the frame, with azure ocean in the foreground and on both sides, and a thick blue sky above.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Human traffickers offer ‘VIP route’ from Venezuela to avoid Darién perils. It’s just as dangerous

    Coyotes claim route is ‘100% safe’, but dozens have died and Colombian coast guard have rescued more than 1,000 people

October 2023

  • Miskito women wash clothes at a watering hole with garments drying on a line above them and houses in the background

    Indigenous party says it is barred from running in Nicaragua elections

    Banning of Yatama party leaves ruling Sandinistas unchallenged in upcoming elections

June 2023

  • ‘I was raised to take into consideration that I was white’ … Claire Denis in Paris this week.

    ‘Protege! Would you use that word for a man?’ Claire Denis on rum, Africa and rethinking MeToo

    Choose your words carefully with France’s most brilliant – and formidable – film director, as she discusses being bourgeois, Harvey Weinstein, and her latest movie, Stars at Noon

February 2023

  • Daniel Ortega delivering a speech in September last year

    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
  • Expulsion of 222 Nicaraguans from their home country<br>epa10462392 Demonstrators march with a picture of Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega, in Managua, Nicaragua, 11 February 2023. Hundreds of supporters of the pro-government Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) took to the streets in different Nicaraguan cities to celebrate the expulsion of 222 Nicaraguans critical of the government and accused of treason. EPA/Jorge Torres

    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?
  • Political prisoners from Nicaragua arrive near Dulles International Airport in Virginia<br>Activists await the arrival of some of the more than 200 political prisoners from Nicaragua at Dulles International Airport in Virginia outside Washington, U.S., after being released and flown to the United States February 9, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

    ‘This is huge’: Nicaragua frees 222 political prisoners and flies them to US

    Daughter of former foreign minister Francisco Aguirre-Sacasa says he is among detainees released, adding: ‘Everybody is on the plane’

January 2023

  • Texas National Guard soldiers stand guard at the US-Mexico border on 8 January 2023.

    ‘Thought we’d made it’: new Biden rule leaves asylum seekers in limbo

  • Some 2,000 migrants stranded on the southern border of Mexico demanded freedom of transit during President Biden's visit to the country.

    Trump v Biden: how different are their policies on the US-Mexico border?

  • Venezuelan migrants continue to be expelled back to Mexico<br>Venezuelan asylum seeking migrants who were expelled back to Mexico from El Paso, Texas, U.S., under new migration enforcement rules from the Biden Administration, are pictured in their makeshift encampment by the Paso del Norte International Bridge in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, October 18, 2022. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

    Biden’s ‘carrot and stick’ approach to deter migrants met with anger

  • Joe Biden&nbsp;announced new border enforcement moves, expanding the parole process for Venezuelans to Nicaraguans, Haitians and Cubans

    1:17

    Biden tells migrants not to 'show up at the border' in new policy announcement – video

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