UN special group on human rights in that country denounced "an exponential increase" in repression. Daniel Ortega's government "must be accountable to the international community," he says.
The report highlights that the repression of all real or imaginary opposition "has become more subtle" More than 3,500 independent organizations, many of them religious, have been closed in Nicaragua since 2018 and their assets have passed into the hands of the State, the report says. "The government has consolidated a spiral of silence that incapacitates any potential opposition," says the president of the think tank.