The Sandinistas' economic platform claims that collective subsistence strategies empower workers and subvert neoliberalism, but the reality of Nicaragua’s economic development is more complex.
The detention of political opponents in the lead up to November presidential elections is the latest episode in the FSLN’s long-troubled relationship to democracy.
A wave of the coronavirus hitting Costa Rica’s agriculture and construction industries—both heavily reliant on migrant labor—has sparked an uptick in xenophobia against Nicaraguan migrants.