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Nicaraguan protests

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One year after Nicaraguan uprising, Ortega is back in control

Global Politics

A massive protest movement exploded across Nicaragua in April 2018, threatening to topple the country’s authoritarian regime. What happened to Central America’s “tropical spring?”

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This Nicaraguan journalist is still reporting in exile

A woman wearing a blue bandana covering her face dressed in white holds her hands out to block a riot police.

Migrant money could be keeping Nicaragua’s uprising alive

Conflict
a nicarguan migrant woman and her daughter in mexico

Violence drives increasing numbers of Nicaraguans to the US

Immigration
A man wearing sunglasses and a blue T-shirt around his head speaks

Hiding in Nicaragua, Ortega’s battered opponents plan comeback

Masked police block the entrance of Divine Mercy Catholic Church in Managua, Nicaragua,

Nicaragua students freed from church after violent night; one killed

Catholic bishops on Saturday secured the release of dozens of Nicaraguan student protesters trapped overnight inside in a church under a hail of gunfire from armed pro-government supporters, who killed at least one person inside, a human rights group said.