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.
The Indio-Maíz fire sparked the current wave of protests and repression in Nicaragua. But the fire reveals far more about the consequences of the Ortega administration’s failure to respect Indigenous and Afro-descendant rights and to halt the colonization of Indigenous lands.
Las respuestas de Estados Unidos a Daniel Ortega de Nicaragua y Juan Orlando Hernández de Honduras revelan que la política exterior de Washington en América Central está atrapada en la era de la Guerra Fría.
