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Nicaragua’s Judiciary: Subordinate to the Ortega-Murillo Regime
Various magistrates and judges in Nicaragua have been accused of being at the service of Daniel Ortega and the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) power apparatus, which has governed since 2007. However, the Supreme Court’s lack of independence is just one scandal added to a long list of instances of nepotism, bribery, extortions, and even…
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Honduras: The Public Prosecution Service and its Legacy of Impunity and Injustice
The Public Prosecution Service of Honduras was created on December 13, 1993 by decree 229-93 of the National Congress, in a context of great transformations: only four years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Central America had achieved peace through the Esquipulas Peace Accords and a new investigation and justice system was critical in the country after decades of military…
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Ryan Berg, American Enterprise Institute foreign and security policy expert: «U.S. Sanctions on the Nicaraguan Army would force it to work toward a democratic transition»
On November 3rd, US voters will decide whether to resume President Donald Trump’s term or opt for a change in the White House with Democrat Joe Biden. In terms of policy toward Latin America and in particular toward Central America, a new president would bring other strategies to contain drug trafficking, authoritarianism and migration, however, the continuation of the current U.S. president would imply…
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MACCIH, AN UNFINISHED “HONDURAN MODEL” FOR FIGHTING CORRUPTION
Establishing the Mission to Support the Fight Against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (Maccih) was crucial to the gradual creation of a comprehensive system to break up the country’s corruption networks—allegedly comprising businesspeople and drug lords, but above all, very powerful politicians—in what the German nongovernmental organization Transparency International considers one of the most corrupt…
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Nicaragua’s regime keeps the public schools defenseless against the COVID-19 threat
Masaya, 26 kilometers southeast of Managua, Nicaragua’s capital, March 31: while a large part of the world’s schools have orders to keep their students at home due to the COVID-10 pandemic, in this and all other cities of Nicaragua, groups of students sit on one of so many black-painted benches in the central park after…
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“Honduras in search of justice”
Topic of this special report: Penal justice system in Honduras The history of Honduras’ Public Ministry (Prosecutor General’s Office), an institution created by law in 1993 and made operational the following year, has been marked by the National Congress’ questionable political decisions and by the dearth of indictments against drug lords and important personalities fingered…
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