On the morning of April 25, the Nicaraguan writer and poet Gioconda Belli received an alert from Managua: customs officials had banned the entry of her latest novel, Un silencio lleno de murmullos (A Silence Full of Murmurs), into the country from which she is in exile. The book joins other titles by Nicaraguan authors whose sales have recently been blocked by the regime of Daniel Ortega and his wife and co-president, Rosario Murillo. “The dictatorial power fears the truths that literature illuminates. That is why they expel us, exile us, and imprison us. This happens and has happened to writers throughout history,” Belli reacted. The censorship of her work is the latest chapter in a systematic offensive that has outlawed 81 cultural institutions in the country, confiscated festivals, and replaced independent creative work with an official offering controlled by the presidential family.

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The repatriation of the bodies of many Nicaraguans is delayed for months due to the absence of immediate family members and lack of funds.

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On February 9, 2023, the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship released 222 political prisoners who had been subjected to torture and solitary confinement for several years at El Chipote and La Modelo prisons in Nicaragua, and sent them into exile in the United States. Among them there were the seven opposition presidential candidates, imprisoned five months before the November 2021 elections, and dozens of activists and civic leaders who supported the April 2018 uprising and participated in the national dialogue with the government, which was crushed by state repression and the police state.

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Without land of their own, Nicaraguan farmers in Costa Rica rent plots every six months to continue the trade inherited from their parents.

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Key Points — NOAA’s April 2026 outlook gives a 61% probability of El Niño emergence in the May-July window rising to 62% for June-August, with a 1-in-3 chance the event classifies as “strong” during October-December 2026. — A moderate-to-strong event would cut Andean GDP by 0.6-1.7 percentage points, threaten 50% of LATAM’s hydro-dependent electricity supply, […]

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Rosa Maria Paya: Eight years after the April 2018 protests, a regime of terror against dissenting voices remains inside and outside Nicaragua

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In Costa Rica, the United States, and Europe, activities are being organized to honor the memory of those killed by the dictatorship.

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Key Points — At least 108,838 people were murdered across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2025, with contract killings accounting for a growing share in countries from Colombia to Peru — In Bogotá, half of all homicides are now classified as sicariato — professional hits carried out as outsourced services between criminal networks, with […]

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In this rigged poker game run by the dictatorship in Nicaragua, the old mining players should remember that “the house always wins.”

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Key Points — The IMF’s April WEO cut global growth to 3.1% (down 0.2pp from January) and raised global inflation to 4.4%, citing the Iran war as the primary risk. Chief Economist Gourinchas said the world is “somewhere between the baseline and the adverse scenario.” — Latin America was raised to 2.3% growth (up 0.1pp), […]

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Nicaragua is facing a fracture that goes beyond politics: the conflict has divided families, friendships, and communities.

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Yolidia Hernández from Nicaragua took our photo of the day: "Enjoying Lake Cocibolca", in Ometepe, Nicaragua.

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