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People demand the release of students who had taken refuge at the Jesus of Divine Mercy church amid a barrage of armed attacks, during a protest near the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, UNAN, in Managua, Nicaragua, Saturday, July 14, 2018.

Nicaragua seizes Jesuit university in latest clash between president and Catholic Church

Sacred Nation

In Nicaragua, last week, a judge ordered the seizure of the country’s most-important Jesuit university, the 63-year-old Central American University. It’s the latest in an ongoing government crackdown on the Catholic Church and church-affiliated institutions inside Nicaragua.

Protesters yell from behind the roadblock they erected as they face off with security forces near the University Politecnica de Nicaragua, UPOLI, in Managua, Nicaragua

‘I have to speak out’: Nicaraguan ambassador resigns, denounces govt as dictatorship

Leaders
Passengers wait to board a plane for New York at the Charles de Gaulle airport, north of Paris

US opens borders to fully vaccinated travelers from a list of countries

Top of The World
child protesting in nicaragua

One year after Nicaraguan uprising, Ortega is back in control

Global Politics
three men in suits stand on the set of a television show

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

Migrants do not just change their home countries financially. They also influence the way local residents think.

a nicarguan migrant woman and her daughter in mexico

Violence drives increasing numbers of Nicaraguans to the US

Immigration

With political violence a daily threat at home, Nicaraguans are fleeing to Costa Rica and, increasingly, the US.

Daniel Ortega speaks in front of a huge picture of Hugo Chavez

Venezuelan oil fueled the rise and fall of Nicaragua’s Ortega regime

Global Politics

This time, it’s not the US that’s supporting an unpopular Nicaraguan dictator. It’s Venezuela.

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

Hiding in Nicaragua, Ortega’s battered opponents plan comeback

Hundreds of government opponents are fleeing the crackdown by pro-Ortega forces.

The Eiffel tower is illuminated in green with the words "Paris Agreement is Done

With Nicaragua’s signature, US and Syria are the last holdouts from the Paris climate agreement

Environment

It’s not common for the US and Syria to be the lone holdouts on an international agreement. But now they are — the only two nations refusing to abide by the Paris Climate Agreement.