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October 7, 2025

What Does the Future Hold for Nicaraguans?

The government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has been “expanding its repression,” according to a recent United Nations report. // File Photo: Consejo de Comunicación y Ciudadanía de Nicaragua via Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.

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  • Nicaragua’s government has been “expanding its repression of perceived opponents far beyond its own borders,” the United Nations Human Rights Council said Sept. 23 in releasing a new report from a group of experts. The report, which was presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, documents government targeting of thousands of Nicaraguans abroad, including the denial of passports, digital surveillance and threats. How much is the human rights situation in Nicaragua, and the conditions for Nicaraguans abroad, worsening, and why? What is the state of the opposition to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega? To what extent are international actors, including the United States, focused on Nicaragua, and why?

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Juanita Goebertus Estrada, director of the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch: “Nicaragua’s repression has increasingly extended beyond its borders. At home, Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo have consolidated one-family rule through constitutional changes that concentrate power in the executive. Authorities have stripped critics of nationality and assets and dismantled civic space—more than 5,500 NGOs and dozens of media outlets have been shut down since 2018. As of August, a human rights organization reported that there are at least 73 political prisoners. Abroad, as U.N. experts reported in September, government critics face surveillance, intimidation and, in some cases, violent attacks. Since February 2023…”

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