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NPR Features a Journalist’s Undercover Trip to Nicaragua

Journalist Eyder Peralta reporting on a clandestine trip he made to Nicaragua, a country which has barred all entrance to foreign journalists

UN High Commissioner denounces “serious deterioration” of human rights, total closure of democratic space, and arbitrary prison sentences.

Persecuted by regimes intolerant of free expression, reporters from Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador have been forced to work from exile.

Carlos F. Chamorro: “The Army head has neither disputed nor proven false anything in the Confidencial investigations.”

The Society of Jesus narrates the “emotional and psychological violence” suffered by the priests expelled from their residence in Managua.

Critics say the Ortega dictatorship has made a business of granting Nicaraguan citizenship, which does not discriminate political ideologies.

Entrepreneurs in Nicaragua ask: “if the UCA was stolen, who will prevent my business from being taken too?”

General Aviles attacked exiled independent journalists at the event and reiterated his loyalty to the dictator.

A new letter of support for the UCA-Nicaragua includes 728 signatures from academics from Latin America, the US, Canada, Europe & Africa.

The novel is set just slightly beyond the borders of reality, in a Nicaragua where actual events frequently seem penned by a novelist.