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Nicaragua: Anti-Canal Leader Dies under Police Harassment

The peasant leader led protests against the proposed expropriation of their lands to build the proposed interoceanic canal.

Far from recognizing its responsibility in this humanitarian crisis, the dictatorship announced that Nicaragua was withdrawing from UNHCR.

Doña Violeta was, and continues to be, our President, the original one, from a period that shines ever more brightly as time goes by.

Ortega imposes the lowest speed limit in Central America. An expert says it’s “revenue-driven”, truckers and bus drivers call it illogical”.

He was shot eight times inside his home in San Jose, sustaining injuries to the chest, abdomen, and lower limbs, according to the Red Cross.

US government orders migrants to leave the country “Now” unless they have asylum or other immigration relief.

As “a global phenomenon with local implications, it’s essential that we better understand its impact on Latin America and the Caribbean…”

After defeating Daniel Ortega at the polls in February 1990, she became the first elected woman president in the Americas.

The former president of Nicaragua passed away in San Jose, Costa Rica, on June 14, 2025, her family confirmed in a statement.

Citing no evidence, Ortega and Murillo accuse the UN Agency of publishing “biased and one-sided” information, and of “interventionism.”