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Nicaragua: Ortega’s Agents Deport US Journalist-Translator

Judy Butler came to Nicaragua in 1983 and is well known for her decades of work translating for the monthly magazine Envio.

Humberto Ortega, Daniel Ortega’s younger brother, publicly questioned the “dynastic succession” of an “authoritarian dictatorial power.”

“To have one’s country taken away, to have the doors of return closed, will always be a sorrow. One must know how to endure it,” says Ramirez

Teacher Pedro Alfonso Morales, journalist Orlando Chávez Esquivel, and his siblings Obed and Merary Chavez were taken from their homes.

Daniel Ortega’s Attorney General says the confiscations, “restore state ownership over properties that individuals were improperly using”.

The dictatorship imposes a “de facto house arrest” on the former Army chief, under which more than 100 citizens have been held since May 2023

Ranchers dispute the allegations of the film “Patrol” accusing them of environmental destruction within Nicaragua’s jungle reserves.

INETER said the volcanic activity does not pose “major risks” and categorizes the impact of the phenomenon as “medium to low”.

United States authorities lament the implementation of “permissive migration policies” by the Ortega-Murillo regime.

“After his return to power in 2007 until today, Daniel Ortega violated institutions, incipient democracy and national sovereignty.”