Miss Nicaragua pageant director quits after police accuse her of treason
Karen Celebertti retires weeks after Nicaragua’s contestant, who took part in protests in 2018, was crowned Miss Universe The director of the Miss Nicaragua pageant...
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Nicaragua’s Miss Universe emerges as symbol of defiance against Ortega regime
‘Nervous’ government has cracked down on celebrations for Sheynnis Palacios in country where ‘repression is absolute’ When Sheynnis Palacios was recently voted Miss Universe, it...
Nicaragua: Ortega crackdown deepens as 94 opponents stripped of citizenship
Some of country’s most celebrated writers and journalists targeted as critics condemn ‘totalitarian drift’ under 77-year-old president Prisoners flew to freedom – but Ortega’s not...
‘This is huge’: Nicaragua frees 222 political prisoners and flies them to US
Daughter of former foreign minister Francisco Aguirre-Sacasa says he is among detainees released, adding: ‘Everybody is on the plane’ More than 200 prisoners jailed by...
Hurricane Julia: Nicaragua braces amid flash flood and mudslide warnings
Nicaraguan soldiers assist evacuations as up to 38cm of rain forecast across Central America after tropical storm strengthened into hurricane Hurricane Julia swept by just...
Bolsonaro tries red scare tactics in Brazil election by raising spectre of Nicaragua
Brazil’s far-right president claims that leftwing rival Lula will repress clergy like Ortega but so far with little apparent success More than 4,000km and an...
Nicaraguan bishop arrested after two-week standoff at Matagalpa residence
Rolando Álvarez and eight others in custody after latest clash between President Daniel Ortega and Catholic church Heavily armed Nicaraguan police have arrested a bishop...
Erosion of abortion rights gathers pace around the world as US signals new era
A leaked supreme court draft ruling shows the US is set to end 50 years of a woman’s right to choose. Elsewhere, the battle still...
Nicaragua’s ambassador to the OAS denounces Daniel Ortega’s ‘dictatorship’
Arturo McFields Yescas spoke out against the government he is representing in a verbal attack that was lauded by the US Nicaragua’s ambassador to the...
