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Proposed Nicaragua law could muffle dissent

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President Donald Trump participates in a Latinos for Trump Coalition roundtable at Treasure Island Hotel &amp; Casino, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Appeals court backs Donald Trump on ending deportation amnesty for ‘s—-hole’ countries

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2018, file photo, Mateo Barrera, 4, originally from El Salvador, whose family members benefit from Temporary Protected Status attends a news conference in Los Angeles. The Trump administration can end humanitarian protections that have allowed hundreds of thousands of people from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Sudan to remain in the United States, a divided appeals court ruled Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a preliminary injunction that had blocked the government from ending Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for people from those four countries. People from El Salvador would be most affected. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Court: Trump can end temporary legal status for 4 countries

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 1, 2018 file photo, a masked protestor holds up a Nicaraguan flag above the Spanish graffiti phrase: &quot;The state did it,&quot; during a protest against the government of President Daniel Ortega on National Children's Day in Managua, Nicaragua. Nineteen Nicaraguans who say they suffered torture and sexual abuse at the hands of their country's security forces during anti-government protests from April to August 2018 testified in San Jose, Costa Rica to a panel of legal and psychological experts the week of Sept. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga, File)

Nicaraguans testify of abuses in crackdown on protests

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UN warns Nicaraguan refugees in Costa Rica going hungry

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The tie belonging to the late evangelical Pastor Ovidio Valladares sits on a table in his former office, along with a portrait of him and his wife Aura Maria Valladares at Bethel evangelical church in Managua, Nicaragua, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. Valladares died from COVID-19 related complications on June 9, and more than 40 evangelical leaders have died since March from the disease nationwide. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga)

Latin America’s evangelical churches hard hit by pandemic

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Prosecutors in El Salvador file charges against ex-president

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FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2005 file photo, a woman prays in front of Sangre de Cristo in the Metropolitan Cathedral in Managua, Nicaragua. The Vatican's top diplomatic envoy in Nicaragua said Monday, August 3, 2020, that he had requested the Nicaraguan government ensure a &quot;serious, careful and transparent investigation&quot; into the attack on the Sangre de Cristo chapel in capital's cathedral that destroyed the venerated statue of almost 4 centuries. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Nicaragua archbishop rejects that chapel fire was accidental

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A vendor sells T-shirts promoting Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and The Sandinista National Liberation Front ruling party on the sidelines of a new monument, called the Peace Bell, before its inauguration ceremony later in the day in Managua, Nicaragua, Friday, July 17, 2020. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government is being deterred by the new coronavirus from holding the usual mass celebration to mark the victory of the country's revolution July 19, and will instead unveil a new addition to its collection of monuments. At right is a T-shirt of Cuba's revolutionary hero Ernesto &quot;Che&quot; Guevara. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga)

PAHO waits for Nicaragua to approve visit by virus experts

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FILE - In this May 16, 2018 file photo, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega speaks at the opening of a national dialogue, in Managua, Nicaragua. Ortega spoke in a nationally televised address on Monday, May 18, 2020, and blamed health monitoring measures taken by Costa Rica for his country's decision to close their two border crossings. The dispute boiled over since Costa Rica began May 8 testing all truck drivers entering the country for COVID-19. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga, File)

US sanctions son of Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega

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FILE - In this May 11, 2020 file photo, a medical worker wears a mask and face shield at the entrance of the SERMESA hospital in Managua, Nicaragua. While the Pan-American Health Organization urges Nicaragua to take more aggressive measures against the coronavirus pandemic and neighboring countries warily eye its outbreak, President Daniel Ortega’s increasingly authoritarian government seems more focused on hiding the virus than treating it. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga, File)

During pandemic, Nicaraguan doctors face political pressure

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FILE - In this May 3, 2018 file photo, Eden Pastora, better known as &quot;Commander Zero,&quot; speaks during an interview at his house in Managua, Nicaragua. Pastora, one of the most mercurial, charismatic figures of Central America’s revolutionary upheavals, has died. His son Alvaro Pastora said Tuesday, June 16, 2020 that he died at Managua’s Military Hospital of respiratory failure. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Edén Pastora, Nicaraguan revolutionary, dead at 83

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A woman wears a mask against the spread of COVID-19 disease, as she attends a funeral at the Central cemetery of Managua, Nicaragua, Monday, May 11, 2020. President Daniel Ortega's government has stood out for its refusal to impose measures to halt the new coronavirus for more than two months since the disease was first diagnosed in Nicaragua. Now, doctors and family members of apparent victims say, the government has gone from denying the disease's presence in the country to actively trying to conceal its spread. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga)

Health organization urges Nicaragua to take action

By GISELA SALOMON - Associated Press

FILE - This Sept.16, 2015 aerial file photo shows land cleared by &quot;settlers&quot; who Miskito indigenous leaders accuse of seizing by force lands long considered communal property and clear-cutting tropical forest for cattle ranching in Murubila, Nicaragua. Nicaragua’s government has not only failed to enforce laws that protect its indigenous peoples and their communal lands, but is actively promoting illegal land grabs and granting concessions to mining and timber companies, according to a report released Wednesday, April 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)

Report: Nicaragua government failing to protect indigenous

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 21, 2019 file photo, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega speaks during the inauguration ceremony of a highway overpass in Managua, Nicaragua. After not appearing in public for 34 days, Ortega spoke to the nation on Wednesday, April 15, 2020, and said that the country is fighting patiently against the new coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga, File)

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega reappears after absence

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A fruit vendor, wearing a protective face mask, makes her way through a popular market in Managua, Nicaragua, Tuesday, April 7, 2020. Restaurants are empty, there's little traffic in the streets and beach tourists are sparse headed into Holy Week despite the government's encouragement for Nicaraguans to go about their normal lives. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga)

Nicaragua inaction on virus raises fears of regional spread

By GABRIELA SELSER - Associated Press

In this Feb. 10, 2020 photo, Luis Uriarte walks through his bean field near Upala, northern Costa Rica, where several hundred Nicaraguan refugees, including Uriarte, are carving out an existence with machetes and a firm belief that they could be jailed or killed if they return too soon to their country. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Nicaragua refugee farmers carve out existence in Costa Rica

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

Nicaragua creates new fuel firms after December US sanctions

By GABRIELA SELSER - Associated Press

Deadly attack on indigenous community in Nicaragua

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Nicaragua police seize $1M, arrest 2 in weekend operation

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