Nicaragua Archives - Havana Times

More Than 800,000 Nicaraguans Left the Country Since 2018

11.6% of Nicaragua’s total population has left the country between April 2018 and November 2025, according to a report.

Confidencial names the retired major, assassinated in Costa Rica, as Person of the Year. His legacy lives on in the demand for justice.

Havana Times is now in its 18th year of daily publishing and we hope to be able to continue throughout 2026.

Felix Maradiaga: “we shouldn’t place all our hope in solutions that come from outside; we have to organize an internal force of resistance”.

“There is a “pattern” of borrowing from Chinese companies in Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Sri Lanka, Angola, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique.”

Around 35 Nicaraguans were released from prison over the past week; 17 of them had not been identified as political prisoners.

Between exile and persecution, Nicaraguan writers and journalists struggle to make their voices heard inside and outside the country.

In short, for US President Donald Trump, Juan Orlando Hernandez “may be an SOB… but he’s one of ours.”

Honduras’ new president could add another Central American country to the growing influence of the Bukele model.

The Miss Universe pageant uncovered a criminal network in Mexico that led to the resignation of the attorney general.