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Nicaraguan Asylum Seekers in US Live in Fear of Deportation

Three asylum seekers whose cases are still unresolved speak about their fear of being returned to a Nicaragua, where they don’t feel safe.

The Riverside Company is asking the US Department of Commerce to sanction Nicaragua under the provisions of the Cafta Free Trade agreement.

Peter Chartrand from the United States took our photo of the day: “A Patio in Managua, Nicaragua”.

Since March 8, three patrols and dozens of officers have been maintaining a police cordon around the house of former FSLN commander “Modesto”

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.