Daniel Ortega

June 15, 2018
Lori Hanson and Miguel Gomez

As discontent with the Ortega presidency spreads across Nicaragua, a small student movement has grown to include a diverse array of oppositional movements and private sector actors, each with their own political agenda.

May 14, 2018
Courtney Desiree Morris

How did recent protests over social security cuts in Nicaragua turn into a nationwide grassroots mobilization against President Daniel Ortega? 

April 28, 2017
Pamela J. Neumann

Five years after Nicaragua passed a comprehensive law against gender-based violence, a lack of resources and political undermining has weakened women’s rights and legal protection against abuse.

December 2, 2016
Laura Hobson Herlihy and Brett Spencer

Yatama, an indigenous political party on the Caribbean coast, contests Daniel Ortega’s hegemony.

September 16, 2016
Jennifer Goett and Courtney Desiree Morris

Political repression in the country has its roots in U.S. intervention.

September 6, 2016
Laura Hobson Herlihy

Farmers, cattle-ranchers, and extractive industries threaten the livelihood of Nicaragua’s Miskitu people while the government of Daniel Ortega looks the other way.

November 9, 2011
Bryan Finlayson

On Sunday, voters in Nicaragua and Guatemala chose their country’s next presidents. In Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega sailed to victory and a third term. In Guatemala, retired general Otto Perez Molina was elected despite concerns over his involvement in human rights violations during the former military regime.

September 25, 2007
Carlos M. Vilas
September 25, 2007
Julie Light
September 25, 2007
William I. Robinson

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