{"id":170579,"date":"2025-07-14T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/sin-categoria\/fear-of-leaving-and-not-returning-to-nicaragua-the-anxiety-of-a-forced-exile\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T07:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T13:21:21","slug":"fear-of-leaving-and-not-returning-to-nicaragua-the-anxiety-of-a-forced-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/nation\/fear-of-leaving-and-not-returning-to-nicaragua-the-anxiety-of-a-forced-exile\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear of Leaving and Not Returning to Nicaragua: The Anxiety of a Forced Exile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To travel abroad or to stay? This is the dilemma faced by many Nicaraguans who fear they won\u2019t be allowed back into Nicaragua if they travel abroad. The fear of forced exile, and even of losing their properties, bank accounts, or retirement pensions, holds people back from traveling or simply heightens the anxiety of those who choose or need to go somewhere. <\/p>\n\n

Josu\u00e9<\/a><\/em>an employee at a regional financial institution; Orlando<\/a><\/em>a marketer working remotely for an international company; and Estela<\/a><\/em>a mother who hasn\u2019t been able to visit her exiled daughter for nearly three years, tell CONFIDENCIAL<\/strong> about their fear of traveling and not being allowed to return to Nicaragua.<\/p>\n\n

Until early 2024, the ban on re-entering Nicaragua<\/a> seemed to be an order applied only to citizens accused of being \u201copponents,\u201d whether they were or not. But as the months pass, the order to block Nicaraguans trying to return has expanded to affect not just those who oppose the regime, but any citizen indiscriminately. <\/p>\n\n

Living with the rear of not returning to Nicaragua<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

\u201cIf they put you on their red list, they strip you of your homeland. They take your assets. They confiscate everything. That\u2019s the terror we live with \u2014 there\u2019s terrible anxiety in the country,\u201d said the administrator of a company in the food sector, speaking to CONFIDENCIAL<\/strong>, although these illegal confiscations are mainly targeted at people convicted of alleged political crimes or at associations that have been shut down. <\/p>\n\n

“It is a form of repression so that those of us who, according to them, raise their voices in the country, leave little by little and simply do not want to return to Nicaragua because of the fear that they themselves have generated,” said a citizen of the capital who asked to be identified as Eduardo<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n

Other Nicaraguans, who agreed to share their experiences anonymously, explained how the fear of traveling keeps them from fulfilling work goals or even meeting basic needs like visiting a daughter abroad.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m afraid to travel and not be allowed back into Nicaragua, because then I wouldn\u2019t be able to keep caring for my grandmother,\u201d said Orlando<\/em>, who lives in a town near Managua.<\/p>\n\n

Thousands of dollars charged toavoid forced exile<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

Two Nicaraguans familiar with the fear of traveling and not being allowed back into the country also revealed the existence of an extortion scheme targeting wealthier travelers, who are forced to pay bribes of several thousand dollars to be allowed back in.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cI have a friend who was charged $5,000 just to be allowed to return to the country \u2014 he had no choice but to pay it,\u201d said Adolfo<\/em>, a Nicaraguan businessman who has lived abroad for decades.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cI know someone who had to pay $60,000. I know cases of $25,000, $10,000, $5,000. They assess you based on your means. It\u2019s like a tax: if this traveler is worth a million, they charge $50,000; if he has half a million, they ask for $25,000. If he has less, they charge less \u2014 but they make you pay, under threat that if you report it, they\u2019ll imprison you, seize your assets, and kick you out of the country again,\u201d<\/p>\n\n

In April 2025, La Prensa<\/em> newspaper revealed that the regime charges people denied re-entry to be allowed back into Nicaragua<\/a>. In June, the outlet Divergentes<\/em> reported that the dictatorship demands at least $6,000 per citizen.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n

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Estela: <\/em><\/strong>more than two years without seeing her daughter<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

A mother and homemaker, Estela has spent more than two years without seeing her exiled daughter. She fears leaving the country and being barred from returning \u2014 or facing political persecution if she does. <\/em><\/p>\n\n

\"Mother<\/figure>\n\n

Estela<\/em> is a homemaker who hasn\u2019t seen her daughter in more than two years. Her daughter left Nicaragua in mid-2022 to evade an arrest warrant issued against her on accusations of alleged \u201cterrorism.\u201d Since then, mother and daughter have stayed in touch only by phone, careful not to say more than necessary. <\/p>\n\n

If those who have managed to save enough money to become targets for extortion schemes worth thousands of dollars are afraid, so are people with middle incomes \u2014 and even those with little to their name, like Estela<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n

Estela<\/em> faces a dilemma: whether to try visiting her daughter by following legal procedures or to take the same route as her daughter and attempt to enter Costa Rican territory irregularly. Both options carry difficult costs. Traveling legally means applying for a passport that might be denied after she\u2019s already paid for it. It would also put her back under the regime\u2019s scrutiny. Both her and her other son, a former police officer who refused to return to the force to avoid repressing Nicaraguans. <\/p>\n\n

Estela<\/em> fears they will let her leave the country but then reject her when she tries to return to Nicaragua, which would mean losing the life she\u2019s built and the small home she managed to build in a northern municipality with the help of both her children. Crossing irregularly is definitely not an option, as the physical decline that has come with age makes it impossible even to attempt entering Costa Rica through the backcountry paths. <\/p>\n\n

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Orlando<\/em><\/strong> is afraid, but will travel<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

He is a marketer who works from home. Despite his comfortable economic situation, he fears traveling and losing everything, but he also doesn\u2019t want to feel trapped. <\/em><\/p>\n\n

\"Works
Some decide to take the risk of leaving despite their fear. The grief of not being able to return becomes constant. \/\/ Illustration: CONFIDENCIAL <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Orlando<\/em> works from home, doing marketing for an international company. The good salary he earns, combined with his saving habits, have allowed him to build his house on a lush family property in a municipality near Managua. Because of this, he hesitates about leaving the country, as he does not want to lose contact with his grandmother, the closeness of his puppies, the house itself, or the savings he has been able to accumulate. <\/p>\n\n

For more than a year, Orlando<\/em> has had plans to travel but has refrained from doing so. \u201cI don’t know if I will be banned from returning to Nicaragua. I used to travel frequently, but I\u2019ve stopped. Many of my relatives don\u2019t travel either because they fear they won\u2019t be allowed back, that their properties will be taken, or that their money in the bank will be stolen,\u201d he recounts. <\/p>\n\n

Despite the fear, Orlando<\/em> resists living as if Nicaragua were a cage, concluding that \u201csometimes you just have to take the risk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m still thinking about traveling soon, but I don\u2019t want to live with the paranoia of what might happen or not happen,\u201d he says. That is why, since he is determined to travel\u2014to El Salvador, or Guatemala; to Brazil or Argentina\u2014he is preparing for the possibility of exile by gathering the necessary documents to leave his properties in the care of someone he trusts. <\/p>\n\n

Orlando<\/em> explains that the root of his fear is more related to his family than to his own actions. \u201cI supported the protests, and I\u2019m not in favor of the current government system, but although I personally wasn\u2019t heavily exposed, some of my family members were, and I have relatives who haven\u2019t been allowed to enter the country because of that,\u201d he details. <\/p>\n\n

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Josu\u00e9: <\/em><\/strong>technology as a professional lifeline<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

For several years he has worked in a regional financial institution and used to travel frequently. He stopped doing so for fear of being banished. <\/em><\/p>\n\n

\"Stopped
Nicaraguans who used to travel frequently for work have sought ways to avoid it, to not risk a re-entry ban. Illustration: CONFIDENCIAL <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Josu\u00e9<\/em> is a professional working for a financial institution where his role requires multiple trips per year to represent the company’s interests. Until 2024, he had to cover several regional destinations, with expenses paid, to generate reports showing the international progress of the business. But not anymore. <\/p>\n\n

Since late 2024, Josu\u00e9<\/em> has refused to travel, fearing expulsion at the border if regime agents find his old social media posts<\/a>. The same ones he shared during the heat of the April 2018 Rebellion. Being stuck outside the country would not only separate him from his wife and children but also from the rest of his family. <\/p>\n\n

From the economic point of view, he says he doesn\u2019t believe they would dare confiscate his house or car, but he doesn\u2019t rule it out. The problem would be the need to maintain a home in the country where he would relocate, and another in Nicaragua, even if the company kept him employed, as has happened with other officials forced into exile. <\/p>\n\n

Fortunately, when he shared his fears with company executives, he found the understanding he needed\u2014likely because the fear of not returning to Nicaragua is shared.<\/p>\n\n

His luck is also that technology allows him to work remotely, \u201cwhile this risk subsides, which eventually will have to happen,\u201d he trusts. \u201cFor now,\u201d he recounts, \u201cno one in the company has been pressured to travel.\u201d Looking back<\/em>, he realizes the pandemic served as an experiment proving that his work can be done remotely without losing quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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