This briefing offers an overview of trends in Nicaragua. Specifically, it shows the impact of political radicalization on development, corruption, state capture, and public opinion. The piece points to the US response to Nicaragua through sanctions.
This memo offers insight into the current situation in Nicaragua in 2025, its political and economic activities, and their effects on U.S. foreign policy.
Democracy is under threat in Central America and authoritarianism is on the rise. This problem is having long-term institutional and economic implications for these countries and poses serious challenges for US policy towards the region. Uncheckered political ambitions and abuses of authority in the form of corruption or political and economic favoritism are signs of severe democratic backsliding. Nicaragua is an illustration of the consequences of unconstrained power. But the growing corruption and political ambitions of other Central American leaders could further affect democratic institutions in the region. It is important not only to bear witness but to mobilize proactive foreign policy to prevent authoritarianism from rising.
The Ortega and Murillo dictatorship has used migration as a weapon against the United States, and as a tool of state capture.
Nicaragua’s political changes in 2024 will depend on both the internal and external responses to the dictatorial radicalization, as well as to how the international community redefines its policy toward and relationship with the Ortega-Murillo regime.
The Latin America Advisor interviewed Marta Colomar Garcia, administrative managing partner at Diaz, Reus & Targ, about the future of U.S. sanctions on Latin American countries.
Developing countries can leverage the potential of services to transform their growth prospects and ensure improved standards of living.
What is behind the fact that 60% of businesses in Nicaragua decide not to formalize?
Will protesters succeed in halting the canal’s construction?
Central America is one of Taiwan’s only remaining diplomatic strongholds.
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