What happens when leaders have loyalists in charge of men with guns: Lessons for the US from Nicaragua, Syria and other ...

In what’s been called a “Friday night massacre” at the Pentagon, President Donald Trump removed six top generals or admirals on Feb. 21, 2025, including Air Force General C.Q. Brown and Navy Admiral Lisa Franchetti. Trump also fired military lawyers who …

Paramilitary and Terror in Nicaragua

In Nicaragua, 76,887 voluntary police have been sworn in according to a tally of official data compiled by Confidencial. Photo: CCC The riot squads and the hooded “voluntary police” are the shock forces of the regime to squash any internal dissent. By …

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 …

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 …

Report: Nicaragua Received $373.5 Million in Remittances from the U.S. in January

Nicaragua received $373.5 million worth of remittances originating from the United States in January 2025, the local newspaper La Prensa reported Monday. The amount represented 83 percent of the $448.2 million in remittances received by Nicaragua 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 …