Daniel Ortega

Nicaraguan human rights activists demanded the Ortega regime show proof of life of 80-year-old Bishop Emeritus Juan Abelardo Mata.

Five U.S.-sanctioned Chinese gold mining companies control as much as six percent of Nicaragua’s entire territory thanks to highly favorable gold mining deals signed by the Central American country’s communist regime, the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa revealed on Monday.

Rosario Murillo, the wife of Nicaragua’s communist dictator Daniel Ortega, on Tuesday lashed out against the Nicaraguan Catholic Church, accusing its priests of being “servants of Satan.”

Russia is set to increase its military presence in Nicaragua after its parliamentary upper house, the Federation Council, ratified its cooperation agreement with the communist Ortega regime on Wednesday — a deal that Nicaraguan dissidents denounced turns their country into a “Russian military base.”

Nicaraguan Catholics were once again prohibited from freely celebrating Holy Week this year after the communist regime, led by dictatorial husband-and-wife couple Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, banned all Catholic processions in the country for the third year in a row.

Nicaragua’s communist regime prohibited 406 Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross) Catholic processions during the first week of Lent, the newspaper La Prensa reported this week.

Nicaragua’s communist regime banned the Catholic dioceses of León and Chinandega from carrying out door-to-door evangelization, newspaper La Prensa reported on Thursday.

Nicaragua’s communist regime is banning travelers from bringing Bibles into the country, the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa reported.

Nicaragua is set to pay $2 billion in interest to China for the multiple predatory debt trap loans it has signed with the Chinese communist regime, the newspaper Confidencial reported Monday.

The administration of President Donald Trump deported more Nicaraguan migrants during the first nine months of 2025 than all of 2024 and 2023 combined, the newspaper Confidencial reported on Sunday.

The Communist Ortega regime is vetoing Nicaraguan dissidents from returning to their own country for political reasons, Interior Minister María Amelia Coronel confirmed.

A Chinese mining company exported $25.6 million worth of Nicaraguan gold to Miami between January and August 2025.

Pope Leo XIV received a copy of “Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church,” an extensive report detailing thousands of acts of Christian persecution.

Nicaragua has signed a contract with the China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), a major actor in China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Heads of state from the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) far-left trade bloc condemned this week President Donald Trump’s efforts to address threats from regional drug cartels by deploying troops on Caribbean waters.

The authoritarian regimes of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua have spent extensive efforts to diminish or outright erase the significance of their countries’ national independence days, crafting unpopular communist replacements for the anniversaries.

Communist dictator of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega on Wednesday accused President Donald Trump of committing “crimes against humanity” by deporting illegal migrants in the U.S. and lashed out against Trump’s tariff policies.

The Marxist leaders of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Colombia all offered statements honoring the legacy of the late Pope Francis on Monday, embracing him as a friend to their cause.

Rosario Murillo, wife of communist dictator Daniel Ortega and “co-president” of Nicaragua, praised the “heroism of Jesus Christ” on Tuesday in an address ignoring the fact that her regime has banned Holy Week processions in the country.

Nicaragua’s communist regime announced on Thursday that it wants to rejoin South Africa’s “genocide” case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) after having recently withdrawn from it due to its “high financial cost.”

Nicaragua is forcing the nation’s Catholic priests to present themselves at local police stations weekly for questioning and submitting their homilies for review, the online Catholic outlet The Pillar reported on Wednesday.

The Central Bank of Nicaragua acknowledged the “weight” that remittances sent from abroad have on the economic growth of the country, the newspaper Confidencial reported on Tuesday.

Nicaragua’s communist regime announced over the weekend that it withdrew from South Africa’s “genocide” case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) due to its “high financial cost.”

The Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa reported on Monday that the communist regime turned the seized Episcopal Curia of Matagalpa into the location of a social security-affiliated company and stole all of the relics housed therein.

The upcoming end of the Biden-era “Humanitarian Parole” program will impact remittances sent to Nicaragua — a crucial economic “lifeline” for the nation’s communist regime, the local newspaper La Prensa reported Monday.

Nicaragua’s communist regime has been “secretly” receiving U.S. deportation flights of Nicaraguan nationals since President Donald Trump took office in January, the newspaper Confidencial reported on Friday.

Nicaragua received $373.5 million worth of remittances originating from the United States in January 2025, the local newspaper La Prensa reported Monday.

Nicaragua on Thursday announced its withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council in response to a recently published report by a group of U.N. experts calling for international action against the worsening repression led by dictator Daniel Ortega and his wife and “co-president” Rosario Murillo.

The Sandinista regime of co-dictators Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo in Nicaragua published an unhinged screed this weekend declaring the Vatican a “depraved pedophile” state guilty of “Pharisean mysticism,” an apparent response to the public appearance of a bishop Managua persecuted.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Wednesday described Nicaragua’s communist regime as a threat to the United States for its role in “directly contributing” to the migrant crisis at the U.S. southern border and for permitting a Russian military presence in its territory.

Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, the bishop of the diocese of Matagalpa, said that he believed “our peace is the will of the Lord” in his public interview — nearly a year after Nicaragua’s communist dictator Daniel Ortega banished him from his country.

An Argentine federal court on Monday ordered the arrest of Nicaragua’s communist dictator Daniel Ortega.

Monsignor Rolando Álvarez held his first public Mass since communist dictator Daniel Ortega banished him from Nicaragua.

The communist regime in Nicaragua banished Monsignor Carlos Herrera, Bishop of Jinotega and head of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN), from the country, local outlets reported on Thursday.

President Joe Biden’s migration policy has extracted roughly one in ten Nicaraguan working-age men into the U.S. job market and consumer economy, leaving the country under the firm control of a left-wing dictator.

Amir Rockman, Israeli Consul to Costa Rica, said in an interview on Tuesday that his government has reason to believe that Iranian-linked terrorist groups are freely operating in Nicaragua, a country that recently broke ties with Israel.