Nicaragua’s Ortega offers ‘Sandinista’ fighters to Maduro after ...
Aug 28, 2024 · Nicaragua’s strongman President Daniel Ortega has offered to send “Sandinista fighters” to Venezuela in support of his embattled fellow authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro, in case there is an...
UN experts accuse Nicaragua's government of ... - Associated Press News
Feb 29, 2024 · MEXICO CITY (AP) — A panel of U.N.-backed human rights experts on Thursday accused Nicaragua ’s government of systematic human rights abuses “tantamount to crimes against humanity,” implicating a range of high-ranking officials in the government of …
UN details Nicaragua government's intensifying violent crackdown …
Sep 3, 2024 · A report from the United Nations released on Tuesday detailed alleged crimes committed by the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, including an intensifying crackdown on dissent...
Nicaragua has committed executions, crimes against humanity, …
Mar 3, 2023 · Ortega, now aged 77, first came to power as a leader of the left-wing Sandinista guerrilla movement that toppled the Somoza dictatorship in a 1970s revolution. He was in and out of office...
Is Nicaragua's Ortega-Murillo Dictatorship Nearing Its End?
Aug 25, 2024 · Ortega and Murillo are getting old—they are 78 and 73, respectively—and the prospect of a democratic opening hangs over their hopes for smooth dynastic succession.
Nicaragua's Ortega secures fourth term, U.S. threatens sanctions
Nov 9, 2021 · SAN JOSE, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega clinched a fourth consecutive term, results showed on Monday, after jailing political rivals ahead of a vote that prompted threats...
Nicaragua frees 222 opponents of Ortega, sends them to US | AP News
Feb 10, 2023 · Ortega upped his pursuit of political opponents in early 2021, looking to clear the field ahead of presidential elections in November of that year. Security forces arrested seven potential presidential contenders and Ortega romped to a fourth consecutive term in elections that the U.S. and other countries termed a farce.
Biden targets Nicaragua’s gold in new move against ... - NBC News
Oct 25, 2022 · The Biden administration is ratcheting up pressure on President Daniel Ortega’s authoritarian rule in Nicaragua, threatening a ban on Americans from doing business in the nation’s gold industry,...
Nicaragua presidential election 2021: Daniel Ortega | CNN
Nov 8, 2021 · President Daniel Ortega, along with his wife and Vice President, Rosario Murillo, have been undermining Nicaraguan democracy for years, according to critics and human rights groups.
UN experts accuse Nicaragua government of crimes against …
Mar 3, 2023 · Human rights experts are calling for sanctions against President Daniel Ortega’s government. Ortega, now aged 77, first came to power as a leader of the left-wing Sandinista movement that ...