Nicaragua: UN experts speak of final blow to rule of law

In their report to the Human Rights Council (HRC), the HRC-appointed Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua (GHREN) focused on repressive tactics that have been formalized within recent constitutional reforms, in force since February 2025. These …

US cuts foreign aid to democracy promotion in Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela

CV NEWS FEED // The United States has significantly scaled back its foreign aid efforts in three countries widely considered to be under the control of authoritarian regimes — Nicaragua, Cuba, and Venezuela — cutting off funding for programs that …

Gujarat man dies in Nicaragua while travelling to US via ‘dunki’ route

In Nicaragua, Ortega and Murillo now have their legion of 76,800 paramilitaries

Lorenzo closed his eyes when first lady and “co-president” Rosario Murillo stood on the central platform of Plaza la Fe, in Managua, on the banks of Lake Xolotlán. She swore him in, along with 30,000 other people, as a “hero of peace” and “volunteer …

Nicaragua Is in the Grips of Another Dictatorship, Decades After Sandinista Revolution: Reed Brody

Nicaragua announced last week it is withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council, following a U.N. report that slammed the government’s human rights violations and warned the country was becoming an authoritarian state. The report by a panel of …

Biased UN Report on Nicaragua Ignores Victims of US-Backed Opposition Violence

This originally appeared at The Grayzone. MASAYA, NICARAGUA – Reynaldo Urbina rides his motorbike around the streets of Masaya, Nicaragua, with agility, despite having only one arm. Nearly seven years ago, at the height of a US- supported coup attempt …

Nicaragua: Renewed support needed to address severe civic space closure and human rights violations

Featured Geneva 28 February 2025 Statement at the 58th Session of the UN Human Rights Council Interactive Dialogue on the Report of the Group of Experts on Human Rights on Nicaragua Delivered by Amaru Ruiz Aleman Dear members of the Human Rights Council …

Cuts to USAID affecting political opposition in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela

Ambassador of Belarus V.Barchuk visits Nicaragua 

06 March 2025  On March 4-5, 2025 the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of Cuba and concurrently to the republic of Nicaragua, Vitali Barchuk paid working visit to Managua. V.Barchuk met with the …

Cuban Ambassador to Nicaragua Thanks Parliamentary Support

Havana, March 6 (ACN) Cuban ambassador to Nicaragua Iliana Fonseca thanked local parliamentarians for their support of her country’s struggle against the US economic, commercial and financial blockade. Fonseca wrote on X that during a session of the …