Nicaragua

Over 30 Nicaraguans have been detained by local law enforcement for celebrating the capture of deposed Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, the newspaper La Prensa reported on Friday.

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.

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.

A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that President Trump can end the protected status bestowed by Biden on about 430,000 migrants.

DHS is ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a quasi-amnesty program, for more than 75,000 migrants from Honduras and Nicaragua. 

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.

The authoritarian regimes of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua condemned Israel and pledged unwavering support for Iran after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a series of airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear and missile infrastructure on Friday morning.

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.

A federal judge stopped the Trump administration on Monday from ending deportation protections for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.

In the latest act of immigration-related lawfare against the Trump administration, a federal judge blocked the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan migrants with temporary protected status (TPS) after it was revoked.

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.

The Chinese Communist Party is “intent on rooting out every pocket of independent religious thought” and persecutes Christians by shutting down house churches, stripping children from Christian families, and monitoring every detail of Christian citizens’ lives, International Christian Concern (ICC) announced on Thursday.

The leftist governments of Latin America will begin 2025 with their once-vaunted unity strained and with many facing its own share of controversies at home.

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 House Judiciary Committee and its Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement released a report on Wednesday revealing rampant fraud and widespread abuse of the Biden-Harris administration’s CHNV “Humanitarian Parole” program.

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.

Latin American heads of state congratulated President-elect Donald Trump for his victory in Tuesday’s presidential election.

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.

Israeli Ambassador to Costa Rica Mijal Gur-Aryeh denounced on Monday that Hezbollah and other Iranian radical groups have established bases in Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.