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Nicaragua: 12 Key News Stories in 2025

The dynastic co-presidency, purges within power, Chinese influence, transnational repression, and the impact of the Trump era defined 2025.

Generational turnover in Nicaragua faces a fundamental dilemma: political practices that have sustained strongmen for decades remain intact.

An invasion of Venezuela would intensify remilitarization, authoritarianism, and fragmentation already growing in the Latin American region.

The National Electoral Council declared the conservative candidate the president-elect of Honduras, with 40.26% of the vote.

“When I go out on the street I ask God, make me invisible, make me invisible, so I can come back to my children,” says a Venezuelan migrant.

The detained April Mother in San Antonio asks to be sent to another country: “I can’t return to Nicaragua, but I also can’t remain imprisoned”

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.

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.”