Exiled Nicaraguan opposition leader sees dwindling options for democracy

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Denationalization continues as a repressive tactic in 2025.Originally published on Global VoicesIllustration by Global Voices, made with Canva Pro. Since 2018, the Ortega-Rosario Murillo government in Nicaragua has used multiple repressive strategies to punish citizens who have expressed political dissent, such as persecution, harassment, imprisonment, torture, confiscation of property, and extrajudicial executions. In 2023, state authorities us…

DORAL, Florida (AP) — The underground opposition movement remains active in Nicaragua, but the chances of restoring democracy to the Central American nation are diminishing, he told The Associated Press from his forced exile in the United States on…

Exiled Nicaraguan opposition leader sees dwindling options for democracy

A clandestine opposition movement remains active in Nicaragua, but options for restoring democracy in the Central American country are dwindling, former presidential challenger and political prisoner Félix Maradiaga told The Associated Press from his forced exile in the United States.“The options are increasingly limited because the Sandinista dictatorship has radicalized,” the 48-year-old academic said in an interview in the Miami suburb of Dor…

The price to pay for defending human rights can be very high. Edipcia Dubón was expelled from her country, Nicaragua, and forcibly denationalized, a brutal process that dictator Daniel Ortega has spread massively to frighten anyone who dares to denounce the abuses of the Sandinista regime.Continue reading....

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) updated its database on the cancellations of legal status of civil society organizations in Nicaragua, documenting that the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has closed 5,441 organizations, out of a total of 7,227 registered in 2018. “This massive closure constitutes a systematic attack on pluralism, civic space and democracy in Nicaragua,” the IACHR said.

As part of the seventh anniversary of the massive anti-government protests that took place in Nicaragua in April 2018, the opposition said that Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo know, now more than ever, that they “are defeated,” which is why, in recent months, they have been introducing reforms that allow them to increase their power even more. “The co-dictors know themselves defeated; that’s why they adopted a new Constitution and new laws tha…