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7 February: Nicaragua grants political asylum to former Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli after he requested protection at the Nicaraguan embassy in Panama City. [2]16 February: The government orders the dissolution of the Asociación de Scouts de Nicaragua and seven other nongovernmental organizations perceived of opposition to the regime of President Daniel Ortega, accusing the ...
Along with Cuba and Venezuela, Nicaragua was ranked in August 2021 as one of the countries with the worst electoral observation index in the region. [ 65 ] In October a poll by the opposition-aligned Gallup-CID claimed that support for Ortega had dropped to 19%, while M&R , a polling company contracted by the governing party, claimed Ortega's ...
From 1825 until the Constitution of 1839, the head of state of Nicaragua was styled simply as Head of State (Jefe de Estado), and from 1839 to 1854 as Supreme Director (Supremo Director). In 2025, the Constitution of Nicaragua was amended to provide for the powers of the presidency to be exercised by two co-presidents rather than a single ...
Just hours before Ortega praised Nicaragua′s freedom of the press, five women denounced the government for surrounding their houses with police to prevent them from going out to commemorate International Women's Day. [6]
Ambassadors of Nicaragua (Embajadores de la Republica de Nicaragua) Ministry of Governance (Ministerio de Gobernación, MIGOB); website Archived November 13, 2006, at the Wayback Machine. General Directorate of Migration and Alienage (Dirección General de Migración y Extranjería, DGME); website Archived October 19, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
From 2010 to 2019, El Nuevo Diario was one of the two major newspapers in Nicaragua (the other one being La Prensa). [2] El Nuevo Diario suspended its physical printing and digital editions on 27 September 2019. [3] [4]
19 August – Police in Nicaragua confirm that they have arrested an anti-Ortega Roman Catholic bishop in Managua and warned against further "provocative and destabilizing" activities amongst the clergy. [6] 9 October – Hurricane Julia makes landfall overnight in Laguna de Perlas. [7] 6 November – 2022 Nicaraguan local elections
The unicameral National Assembly replaced the bicameral National Congress of Nicaragua which was disbanded following the overthrow of Somoza government in 1979. There was an interim Council of State with 47 and later 51 appointed members from 1980 to 1984. [2]