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Paramilitary and Terror in Nicaragua

The riot squads and the hooded “voluntary police” are the shock forces of the regime to squash any internal dissent.

Testimonies of Nicaraguans with parole describe the uncertainty of imminent deportation: “We don’t know if we’ll be able to return”.

Five of the seven women are classified as suffering “forced disappearance,” their exact whereabouts and condition unknown.

One day after the fundraising event was prohibited, the organization’s president, Jose Evenor Taboada, was exiled from Nicaragua.

The State Department concluded that 92 programs, managed by the International Republican Institute, were not “in the national interest”

The dictatorship has registered some of the confiscated properties as belonging to public institutions, to try and “legitimize” the seizures.

Calibre Mining Co., which operates mines in La Libertad and Leon, has announced its merger with the likewise Canadian company Equinox Gold.

Latin America has been fertile ground for power couples exercising power together, from autocracies or succession in the presidency…

Reed Brody: The Army was ordered to “neutralize and annihilate protesters… Nicaragua cannot evade responsibility by withdrawing”

Liberal democracies can take different forms, but all require that individuals be able to live without fear of government.