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Security & Strategic Review - May 2026
NICARAGUA: Marking a key anniversary
Nicaraguan and international human rights organisations have marked the eighth anniversary of the brutal crackdown on dissent which began on 18 April 2018 by the authoritarian Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) government led by President Daniel Ortega and his wife, now co-president, Rosario Murillo. In a statement marking the anniversary, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) warned that the human rights situation in Nicaragua remains “among the most serious in the Americas, amid the total concentration of power in the hands of the Ortega-Murillo family”. However, a recent report by regional think tank Centro de Estudios Transdisciplinarios de Centroamérica (Cetcam) highlights continued fissures in the regime which is facing external pressures following the US military action in Venezuela to remove former president Nicolás Maduro (2013-2026), and as Washington is tightening the screws on Managua’s other key ally in the region, Cuba [SSR-26-03].
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