Nicaragua’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with China came into effect on January 1, marking both a new stage in the relationship between the communist nations and another victory for China’s growing influence in the rogue Central American nation.
Nicaraguan police on Thursday detained two senior Catholic priests for the “crime” of praying in public for Bishop Rolando Alvarez, a critic of socialist dictator Daniel Ortega, who in February was sentenced to 26 years in prison for “treason.”
Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, hinted to a U.S. delegation that he will reduce migration to the United States if liberal President Joe Biden gives more aid and support to Latin American dictators.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) warned in its annual report that religious freedom deteriorated around the world in 2023, a net loss driven by increasingly vicious crackdowns from theocracies like Iran and authoritarian regimes like China and Cuba.
Millions of Nicaraguans will spend Christmas under the growing repression of communist dictator Daniel Ortega, who has arrested and banished members of the Catholic Church, prohibited Catholic festivities, and intimidated Christians into silence.
Thirteen unaccompanied minors are among over 300 Indian passengers on a flight to Nicaragua held in France over suspected human trafficking.
Nicaragua arrested 11 Evangelical leaders and launched an investigation into three Americans on Wednesday.
The communist Sandinista government of Nicaragua arrested Monsignor Isidro del Carmen Mora Ortega, the bishop of the Diocese of Siuna, on Wednesday shortly after he presided over a Mass in which he prayed for another imprisoned bishop, Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, sentenced to 26 years in prison for “treason.”
Catholics in Nicaragua said the communist Sandinista regime threatened to arrest anyone celebrating Catholic events in public.
Nicaraguan Catholics persecuted by the communist regime recounted to Congress their experiences being repressed by dictator Daniel Ortega.
A woman, “Miss Nicaragua” Sheynnis Palacios, won the crown at the Miss Universe pageant Saturday in El Salvador.
El Salvador imposed a $1,000 fee on travelers from India and Africa this week in an effort to curb illegal migration to America.
Latin American leftists, including the leaders of the region’s three authoritarian regimes, openly expressed support or justification for the genocidal terrorist organization Hamas’s killing spree in Israel this weekend.
The communist regime of dictator Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua kidnapped Catholic priests Julio Ricardo Norori and Iván Centeno on Sunday, local media reported, the latest act in a wave of relentless persecution against Christianity in the country.
A group of largely Hispanic protesters organized a peaceful demonstration on Tuesday against the presence of delegations from the communist regimes of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua in New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly.
Far-left President Gabriel Boric of Chile used his platform at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday afternoon to denounce the communist regime of Nicaragua’s human rights abuses — while at the same time making calls to lift sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela.
The communist Ortega regime in Nicaragua began a new wave of property seizures against political dissidents over the weekend.
Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega has declared the Jesuit religious order illegal and mandated the confiscation of all its assets.
The Central American province of the Jesuit order has issued a formal rebuke to the government of Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega following the confiscation this week of the Central American University (UCA) of Managua.
The Nicaraguan communist regime has been funding itself with remittances sent home by Nicaraguans who it banished or forced to flee, turning them into a crucial economic resource, a report published by the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa on Friday revealed.
Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa reported on Monday that communists supporting or belonging to the brutal dictatorship of Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega have entered the United States as beneficiaries of the Biden Administration’s humanitarian parole program.
The communist Sandinista regime of Nicaragua sent Matagalpa Bishop Monsignor Rolando Álvarez back to prison on Wednesday after negotiations between the Vatican and the Ortega regime failed to secure his release, according to the local newspaper, Confidencial.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi pledged to confront the United States and its “aggressive imperial policy” alongside the communist Castro regime’s figurehead President Miguel Díaz-Canel and former Cuban dictator Raúl Castro during his trip to Havana on Thursday.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi will travel to Latin America on Sunday to meet with the leaders of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.
The Nicaraguan human rights collective Nicaragua Nunca Mas (“Nicaragua Never Again”) released a report this week accusing the communist Ortega regime of using 40 different types of torture on dozens of political prisoners.
The regime of Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega has stripped Bishop Rolando Álvarez’s defense lawyer of her license to practice law in the country in a latest attack on human rights and religious liberty in the country.
The regime of communist dictator Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua executed a wave of nationwide police raids on Wednesday evening, arresting at least 57 citizens including dissidents, journalists, and human rights activists.
Local and international journalist groups demanded the release of Nicaraguan reporter Victor Ticay this weekend after communist authorities arrested him on Thursday for covering a traditional Catholic Holy Week procession.
The Nicaraguan Ortega regime published a series of photographs and videos this weekend of Matagalpa Bishop Monsignor Rolando Álvarez amidst growing pressure from human rights organizations that demanded proof of life for the Catholic priest.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue has decried the global growth in Christian persecution, while singling out China and Nicaragua in particular for their aggressive assault on the Catholic Church.
Mohamed Farrara Lashtar, the nephew of late Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, has established himself as one of the most trusted top officials in the repressive Sandinista regime of Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega, an extensive profile in the country’s Confidencial news outlet revealed on Monday.
Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega has broken off diplomatic relations with the Holy See after Pope Francis described Ortega’s regime as a “Hitlerian” dictatorship.
The 52nd session of the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) convened this week — with 70 percent of the membership consisting of autocracies, dictatorships, and other non-democratic nations.
The regime of Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega is guilty of “serious and systematic human rights violations” and “crimes against humanity,” the United Nations (U.N.) human rights office declared this week.
President Joe Biden intends to grant the quasi-amnesty gift of “Temporary Protected Status” (TPS) to the growing population of Nicaraguan migrants, says Politico.
Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega has continued his fierce assault on the Catholic Church, shuttering two important Catholic universities and appropriating their assets.
The authoritarian Sandinista regime of Nicaragua banned the nation’s Catholic Church from celebrating all Holy Week processions, ecclesiastical sources informed local media on Friday.
Colombia’s left-wing President Gustavo Petro, a former urban guerrilla fighter who spent ten years running with a murderous Marxist insurgent gang in the 1970s, turned against his ideological fellow traveler Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua on Thursday.
Latin American and African nations made up the bulk of the small resistance on Thursday against condemning Russia on the anniversary of its “special operation” against Ukraine during a vote at the United Nations General Assembly.
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference, has denounced the ongoing aggression against Catholics by the Nicaraguan regime of dictator Daniel Ortega.
