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Security & Strategic Review - September 2024
NICARAGUA: Scaling up attacks on the Catholic Church
In early August a Nicaraguan human rights NGO, Colectivo de Derechos Humanos Nicaragua Nunca Más (CDHNN+), warned of an escalation of repression hitherto not seen this year by the authoritarian government led by President Daniel Ortega targeting the Catholic Church – a lone voice of dissent. Since then, more priests have been exiled and at least 700 religious NGOs shut down amid a wider crackdown on NGOs, while new tax-related measures passed by the 92-member unicameral legislature, which is controlled by Ortega’s Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN), further target churches and religious organisations of all denominations.
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