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Nicaragua OKs Reform To Boost Powers Of President, Wife

Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega and his wife are set to assume absolute power after loyalist lawmakers Friday approved a constitutional amendment elevating her to the position of "co-president" and boosting the pair's joint control over the state.

International Business Times

Nicaragua's President Ortega Proposes Constitutional Reforms For Power

Nicaragua's President Ortega faces backlash over proposed constitutional reforms to consolidate power with his wife, amid international criticism and conce...

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House Republicans Release 14-Page Report Claiming 'Rampant Fraud' in Biden Admin's CHNV Parole Program

"More than 531,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans have entered the U.S. through this unlawful program," claims the report

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Alarm over new law giving Paraguay powers to crack down on NGOs

Activists condemn law and liken it to civil society crackdowns in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Hungary and Russia

The Guardian - US

Nicaragua's Ortega Banishes Leading Catholic Bishop

President Daniel Ortega's government has expelled the head of Nicaragua's bishops' conference to Guatemala, the latter's government and church sources said Thursday.

International Business Times

Gangs’stories: Soraya, the ‘real’ Queen of the South in Nicaragua

For the past five years, the GANGS project, a European Research Council-funded project led by Dennis Rodgers, has been studying global gang dynamics in a comparative perspective. When understood in a nuanced manner that goes beyond the usual stereotypes and Manichean representations, gangs and gangsters arguably constitute fundamental lenses through…

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Nicaragua Cuts Diplomatic Ties With Israel Over Gaza Conflict

Nicaragua severs diplomatic ties with Israel over Gaza conflict, accusing Israel of genocide. International tensions rise.

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Full List of Latin American Leaders Backing Hamas, Iran One Year After Terror Groups' Oct. 7 Attack

The leaders of Venezuela and Cuba have close ties with Teheran and have focused on criticizing Israel's actions. Colombia , Bolivia and Nicaragua have taken similar positions

Latin Times

Biden Administration Won't Extend Legal Permissions For Certain Migrants

The Biden administration will not extend legal permissions for migrants from Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela, and Haiti under a temporary humanitarian program, ...

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Biden Foolishly Decides Not to Extend Legal Status for Migrants Who Entered the US Under the CHNV Private Sponsorship Program

The decision is simultaneously cruel and counterproductive.

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After Venezuela, Biden Admin To Also End Humanitarian Parole for Haitians, Cubans, and Nicaraguans

The government's decision to end humanitarian parole for several nations has left migrants in a state of uncertainty and at increased risk of deportation

Latin Times

Humberto Ortega, Nicaragua's ex-military chief who later turned critic of his brother, dies at 77

Nicaraguan guerrilla fighter Humberto Ortega, a Sandinista defense minister who later in life became a critic of his older brother President Daniel Ortega, has died at age 77

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Nicaragua's Open-Door Policy is Used as 'Political Weapon' by Ortega Against the U.S., Experts Claim

Up until July, over 5 million migrants are estimated to have entered the United States irregularly through Nicaragua in the last two years

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U.S. Includes Vetting Measures for U.S. Sponsors in Humanitarian Parole Program

CHNV program, which allows migrants from Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela to receive work permits, resumed in August after being suspended for frauds

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Texas AG Ken Paxton Targets New Nonprofit Providing Aid to Migrants

Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center received an investigative demand over any ties with the sponsorship program allowing people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to migrate legally to the U.S.

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Continuing crackdown on churches and NGOs moves Nicaragua further from democracy to authoritarianism

The Nicaraguan government recently shut down more than 1,500 nonprofits – many of them civic and religious groups doing humanitarian work in a country long mired in political violence, economic upheaval and social strife.

The Independent UK

Their churches no longer feel safe. Now Nicaraguans are taking their worship home

As President Daniel Ortega has moved aggressively to silence critics of his administration in Nicaragua, faith leaders have denounced their surveillance, harassment and threats at the hands of the state

The Independent UK

Nicaragua strips citizenship from 135 prisoners released to Guatemala

Nicaragua said Tuesday it was revoking the citizenship and seizing the property of 135 people who were expelled from the country last week after serving prison sentences in a government crackdown on dissent

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Nicaragua Strips Nationality Of 135 Exiled Political Prisoners

Nicaragua on Tuesday revoked the nationality of 135 former political prisoners who were freed and flown to Guatemala last week in a deal negotiated by the United States.

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Nicaragua Flies Out 135 Political Prisoners To Guatemala

Nicaragua on Thursday freed 135 political prisoners who flew to safety in Guatemala in the latest such deal negotiated by the United States with strongman Daniel Ortega.

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US secures release of 135 political prisoners from Nicaragua

The released group includes student and religious leaders who were arrested as part of crackdown under President Ortega.

The Independent UK

US secures release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners who have arrived in Guatemala

The United States government says it has secured the release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners who have arrived in Guatemala

International Business Times

US Secures Release Of 135 Prisoners From Nicaragua

The United States said Thursday it had secured the release of 135 political prisoners from Nicaragua, the latest mass transfer by President Daniel Ortega's increasingly authoritarian government.

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US Secures Release Of 135 Nicaraguan Political Prisoners To Guatemala

United States secures release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners, relocated to Guatemala, promoting human rights.

Latin Times

White House says it secured the released of 135 political prisoners in Nicaragua, including members of a Texas missionary group

Among others released are some who "Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo consider a threat to their authoritarian rule," said Jake Sullivan

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