Nicaragua to Host Russian ‘Police Academy,’ Fueling Espionage Fears
Nicaragua’s communist government has authorized the creation of a Russian-made “guidance center” to “restructure” Nicaragua’s police force, authorities confirmed last week. Local media and experts accused the center of being a possible “cover-up” for a future Russian spy agency in the Central American country. Nicaragua’s parliament on Thursday approved the construction of a training center […]
US sanctions Nicaragua attorney general
The United States on Thursday announced sanctions against Nicaragua’s Attorney General Wendy Carolina Morales Urbina for supporting Nicaragua’s “relentless repression of peaceful opposition members.” In one report, the Treasury Department called Morales Urbina “the central figure in the Nicaraguan regime’s unjust persecution of political prisoners.” press release announced sanctions. Morales Urbina supported the policies of […]
Communist Nicaragua Signs Security Agreement with Russia to Bolster Repression
Nicaragua’s brutal socialist dictator Daniel Ortega hosted a meeting on Wednesday with General Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Russian Security Council, and several other senior Russian security officials. Nicaragua signed several security agreements with Russia during the session to strengthen President Ortega’s repressive apparatus, but the United Nations condemned human rights abuses in a damning […]
Ortega-led Nicaragua accused of abuses ‘tantamount to crimes against humanity’
The United Nations-backed Human Rights Commission on Thursday condemned human rights violations by the Nicaraguan government that “amount to crimes against humanity.” Daniel Ortega’s government’s violent crackdown on political opposition has since expanded into a campaign aimed at “neutralizing all kinds of opposition in the long term” and will be the subject of an investigation […]
Nicaragua y Venezuela encabezan lista negra de Freedom House sobre libertades en 2023
MIAMI, EEUU — Freedom House visits Nicaragua and Venezuela to discuss Negra de Paises – Do Not Report Activities in the Region. election manipulationLos derechos politicos et las libertades civiles en general diminuelon de manera significativa en los altimos 10 years. “Global Massive Freedom in 2023,” Freedom House President Michael J. Abramowitz. “In 2024, a […]
Communist Nicaragua Is Having a ‘Massive Move of God’
An American pastor wanted by Nicaragua’s communist government on dubious charges told Breitbart News on Wednesday that his organization is the latest victim of a growing anti-Christian campaign in the majority-Christian country. He said he believed it was Mountain Gateway. Pastor John Britton Hancock said the Sandinista government had told Mountain Gateway that it was […]
Following Mass Outreaches in Nicaragua, Government Jails Pastors, Charges Missionaries
Nicaragua’s government has jailed a local pastor and an American missionary faces criminal charges following a large-scale missionary campaign in the country. Missionary Britt Hancock of Mountain Gateway Ministries, who led a major evangelism campaign in Nicaragua last year, says that’s pretty much exactly what happened. 1 million people participated. However, Hancock, along with his […]
Nicaragua releases 2 detained bishops, 15 priests after negotiations with Vatican
Nicaragua's government confirmed Sunday that it had released two Catholic bishops and 17 other imprisoned clerics following negotiations with Vatican authorities, the Associated Press reported. Bishop Rolando Álvarez and other clergy were imprisoned more than a year ago as part of President Daniel Ortega's crackdown on and opposition to the Catholic Church. Mr. Ortega accused […]
US officials demand Nicaragua release ‘unjustly’ incarcerated Catholic bishop
The Biden administration on Tuesday again criticized the Nicaraguan government for “unjustly” sentencing Roman Catholic Bishop Rolando Álvarez to decades in prison for treason, calling on the current administration to hold religious leaders unconditionally. He demanded his immediate release. State Department Spokesman Matthew Miller told Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo of […]