{"id":180853,"date":"2025-12-30T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/sin-categoria\/nicaragua-12-key-news-stories-in-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:24:17","slug":"nicaragua-12-key-news-stories-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/english\/nicaragua-12-key-news-stories-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicaragua: 12 Key News Stories in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The year 2025 closes as a decisive cycle in Nicaragua\u2019s recent history, marked by the definitive institutionalization of the totalitarian model of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. The entry into force of a new Constitution\u2014tailor-made for the family clan\u2014not only formalized the co-presidency and dynastic succession, but also buried the separation of powers, ushering in absolute control over the judiciary and state institutions. Alongside this process of centralization came an unprecedented purge within the regime\u2019s inner circle, in which former collaborators and loyalists moved from government offices to the cells of El Chipote, confirming the fragility of loyalties in a system that devours its own.  <\/p>\n\n<p>In the realm of human rights and historical memory, 2025 leaves deep scars. The death in exile of former president Violeta Barrios de Chamorro and her legacy of peace in Nicaragua contrasts with a climate of repression that this year reached transnational levels with the assassination in Costa Rica of retired Major Roberto Samcam. <\/p>\n\n<p>At the same time, the UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua (GHREN) raised the political cost for the regime by identifying by name the chain of command responsible for crimes against humanity and the complicity of the Nicaraguan Army in the repression and massacre of the April 2018 protests.<\/p>\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Catholic Church remained under siege, with the systematic confiscation of its property and the expulsion of its representatives, in an effort to dismantle any space of moral resistance in society.<\/p>\n\n<p>The national economy and the international context also underwent a sharp turn under the weight of Chinese influence and Donald Trump\u2019s return to the White House. As companies from the China expand into strategic sectors such as mining and retail trade, new US tariff policies and the threat of mass deportations have sown uncertainty in thousands of Nicaraguan households. <\/p>\n\n<p>This <strong>CONFIDENCIAL<\/strong> roundup, selecting the 12 news stories that marked 2025, offers a comprehensive look at a country navigating between the resilience of its political prisoners and its population inside and outside the country, and the imposition of a dynastic system that seeks to perpetuate itself through force and legal reform.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"2025: Las 12 noticias que tuvieron mayor impacto en Nicaragua\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AGnVrpwMWhQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dictadura-calla-sobre-cifras-de-deportados-nicaraguenses-desde-ee-uu\"><strong>The dictatorship keeps silent on Nicaraguans deported from the US<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>The government of Donald Trump imposed a record of more than 6,000 Nicaraguans deported through December 15, 2025, according to US State Department data.<\/p>\n\n<p>Deported migrants arrived in Nicaragua on 54 flights that were received in secret by the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship. This number exceeds the total flights from the previous two years combined: 2023 and 2024. <\/p>\n\n<p>On September 26, Daniel Ortega referred to the arrival of 119 deportees. <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/nacion\/ortega-afirma-que-recibe-con-brazos-abiertos-vuelos-con-deportados-por-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cHere they are received with open arms,\u201d <\/a>he said, but provided no information about their identities or the conditions under which they and other deportees were received in Nicaragua.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/nation\/u-s-deportations-of-nicaraguans-in-2025-surpass-previous-two-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. Deportations of Nicaraguans in 2025 Surpass Previous Two Years<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-fallece-en-el-exilio-expresidenta-violeta-barrios-de-chamorro\"><strong>Former president Violeta Barrios de Chamorro dies in exile<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>Former president Violeta Barrios de Chamorro died on Saturday, June 14, 2025, in San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica, at the age of 95, after a prolonged illness.<\/p>\n\n<p>The former president, who governed Nicaragua from 1990 to 1996, left a legacy of peace, reconciliation, and democracy after the end of the armed conflict of the 1980s.<\/p>\n\n<p>Do\u00f1a Violeta was honored by her children, exiled in Costa Rica, and by the Nicaraguan community and Costa Ricans.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/nacion\/familia-da-ultimo-adios-a-violeta-barrios-de-chamorro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Her ashes were laid to rest in Costa Rica <\/a>until they can return to rest in peace in her country, when Nicaragua once again becomes a republic in freedom.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/nation\/violeta-barrios-de-chamorro-a-woman-who-fought-for-peace-in-nicaragua\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Violeta Barrios de Chamorro: A Woman Who Fought for Peace in Nicaragua<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-asesinan-al-mayor-en-retiro-roberto-samcam-en-costa-rica\"><strong>Retired Major Roberto Samcam assassinated in Costa Rica<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/nation\/the-killing-of-roberto-samcam-in-costa-rica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">assassination of Roberto Samcam<\/a> on June 19 shocked the community of Nicaraguan refugees in Costa Rica and the Costa Rican public. The former army major was shot eight times at the door of his home, in a killing considered an act of state terrorism by the Nicaraguan dictatorship.<\/p>\n\n<p>On September 12, the Judicial Investigation Agency arrested three suspects, all Costa Ricans, for their participation in the attack. However, authorities are still seeking to capture the gunman, 20-year-old Luis Carvajal, who remains at large, as well as the intellectual authors of the crime. <\/p>\n\n<p>Samcam\u2019s family and international human rights organizations are demanding justice so that this murder does not go unpunished.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/english\/roberto-samcam-person-of-the-year-2025-killed-but-not-silenced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Roberto Samcam, Person of the Year 2025: Killed but Not Silenced<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-entra-en-vigor-la-constitucion-chamuca-y-la-sucesion-dinastica\"><strong>Murillo\u2019s Constitution\u201d and dynastic succession enter into force<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>The dictatorship imposed the new Constitution, which replaces the Presidency with a Co-Presidency, guaranteeing the <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/politica\/publican-la-constitucion-chamuca-que-entrega-el-poder-absoluto-a-ortega-y-murillo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dynastic succession of Rosario Murillo in power<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n<p>The total constitutional reform changed 93% of the articles of the Magna Carta and entered into force on February 18, 2025.<\/p>\n\n<p>The new constitution eliminated the branches of government, which are now merely state bodies subordinate to the co-presidents, and establishes the red-and-black FSLN flag as a national symbol.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/english\/nicaraguas-new-constitution-establishes-a-single-familys-absolute-power-as-of-january-13\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nicaragua\u2019s New Constitution Establishes a Single Family\u2019s Absolute Power as of January 13<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-purga-en-el-carmen-el-encarcelamiento-de-los-incondicionales\"><strong>Purge in El Carmen: the jailing of the \u201cloyalists\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>In 2025, purges intensified within Daniel Ortega\u2019s circle of power, carried out on orders from Rosario Murillo.<\/p>\n\n<p>Former presidential adviser and former FSLN leader <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/policy\/co-dictators-threaten-advisor-bayardo-arce-over-transactions-outside-the-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bayardo Arce was detained on July 30<\/a> and is currently in a condition of forced disappearance.<\/p>\n\n<p>In June, retired former general and Ortega adviser <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/english\/retired-general-alvaro-baltodano-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison-assets-confiscated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00c1lvaro Baltodano was sentenced to 20 years in prison<\/a> for money laundering and alleged treason.<\/p>\n\n<p>Former national security adviser to Ortega and Murillo, <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/policy\/nestor-moncada-lau-ortega-and-murillos-security-advisor-imprisoned\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nestor Moncada Lau,<\/a> an operator of repression, was jailed on August 16.<\/p>\n\n<p>Retired police commissioner general <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/politica\/cae-el-policia-superministro-horacio-rocha-por-ordenes-de-rosario-murillo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Horacio Rocha<\/a> also fell from grace by order of Rosario Murillo.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/policy\/rosario-murillos-great-political-purge-in-nicaragua\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rosario Murillo\u2019s \u201cGreat Political Purge\u201d in Nicaragua<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-rosario-murillo-impone-el-control-absoluto-sobre-la-corte-suprema\"><strong>Rosario Murillo imposes absolute control over the Supreme Court<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>Rosario Murillo consolidated her control over the justice system by forcing the resignation of seven Supreme Court justices, including the Court\u2019s vice president, <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/politica\/renuncias-magistrados-corte-suprema-de-justicia-nicaragua\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Marvin Aguilar<\/a>, who were replaced by judges loyal to Murillo. <\/p>\n\n<p>From the former Supreme Court, only three justices survived: <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/politica\/los-nuevos-magistrados-en-la-csj-de-rosario-murillo-en-nicaragua\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">former president of the Court Alba Luz Ramos<\/a>, who was de facto ousted in October 2023; Justice Gerardo Arce, brother of former adviser Bayardo Arce; and Justice Juana M\u00e9ndez.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/english\/the-hidden-enforcers-behind-nicaraguas-judicial-purge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Hidden Enforcers Behind Nicaragua\u2019s Judicial Purge<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ghren-confirma-participacion-del-ejercito-e-identifica-a-represores\"><strong>GHREN confirms Army participation and identifies repressors<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>The UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua revealed the names of 54 senior officials of the dictatorship who make up the <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/nation\/evidence-links-54-nicaraguan-officials-to-crimes-against-humanity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">chain of command of the repression<\/a> that committed crimes against humanity. <\/p>\n\n<p>Among them are <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/nacion\/informe-ghren-ejercito-de-nicaragua-participo-activamente-en-represion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">11 senior Army commanders who<\/a>, following orders from Ortega and Murillo, participated in the repression of the April 2018 uprising.<\/p>\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/english\/ghren-calls-for-ortega-officials-to-face-the-international-court-of-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Group\u2019s report<\/a>, presented to the UN General Assembly on October 30, identified the institutions directly involved in the repression. Including the Presidency, the Army, the Police, and the Judiciary.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/english\/ghren-identifies-54-senior-officials-responsible-for-repression-in-nicaragua\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GHREN identifies 54 senior officials responsible for repression in Nicaragua<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-el-gran-robo-a-la-iglesia-confiscan-39-propiedades\"><strong>Mass confiscations from the Catholic Church<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>A <strong>CONFIDENCIAL <\/strong>investigation revealed that the dictatorship has confiscated 39 Catholic Church properties since 2022, including schools and universities, retreat houses, and the headquarters of religious orders.<\/p>\n\n<p>The seizures have been rebranded as supposed public works of the regime. In 2025, confiscations continued with 18 properties taken from religious organizations and nongovernmental entities. <\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/english\/inside-the-ortega-regimes-theft-of-the-church-39-catholic-properties-seized-in-nicaragua\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Inside the Ortega Regime\u2019s Theft of the Church: 39 Catholic Properties Seized in Nicaragua<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-minerias-y-tiendas-chinas-se-toman-nicaragua\"><strong>Chinese mining companies and shops take over Nicaragua<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>In 2025, the Ortega\u2013Murillo dictatorship strengthened its economic dependence on the People\u2019s Republic of China.<\/p>\n\n<p>The regime contracted 11 onerous loans with Chinese companies to develop infrastructure projects worth US $1.4 billion, but <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/nation\/the-trap-of-chinese-solidarity-nicaragua-will-pay-2-billion-usd-for-costly-loans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">will pay more than $2 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>The dictatorship has given nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/nacion\/tiendas-y-mineras-de-china-se-toman-nicaragua\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">920,000 hectares in concessions to Chinese companies for mining exploitation<\/a> since 2023.<\/p>\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Chinese merchants opened more than 400 retail stores through October 2025, displacing local commerce in most municipalities. <\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/nacion\/solidaridad-hecha-en-china-serie-especial-de-confidencial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Solidarity Made in China: Read the full special series from CONFIDENTIAL<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-estados-unidos-aplica-sanciones-graduales-a-nicaragua\"><strong>United States applies gradual sanctions to Nicaragua<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>On December 10, the Trump administration announced a gradual tariff of up to 15% over two years on Nicaraguan exports that use inputs from countries that are not part of CAFTA.<\/p>\n\n<p>The sanction is part of the response by the Office of the United States Trade Representative to Nicaragua\u2019s human rights violations and breaches of the rule of law, in contravention of the DR-CAFTA treaty.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/economia\/ee-uu-impone-arancel-gradual-a-nicaragua-pero-no-toca-el-cafta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The US imposes a \u201cgradual tariff\u201d on Nicaragua, but leaves CAFTA untouched.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-muerte-en-las-carceles-y-el-paso-a-casa-por-carcel-de-facto\"><strong>Deaths in prison and a de facto shift to house arrest<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>In 2025, political prisoners <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/nation\/hurried-guarded-burial-for-political-prisoner-who-died-under-regime-custody\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/english\/second-political-prisoner-to-die-this-week-under-ortega-murillo-regime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mauricio Alonso<\/a> (August 25) and Carlos C\u00e1rdenas Cepeda (August 29) died in the dictatorship\u2019s prisons. <\/p>\n\n<p>The dictatorship <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/english\/political-prisoners-released-but-confined-to-house-arrest-several-are-ill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sent 25 political prisoners to a de facto house-arrest<\/a> regime between November and the first week of December 2025. In addition to 17 other prisoners who were not on the list of prisoners of conscience.<\/p>\n\n<p>According to the Mechanism for the Recognition of Political Prisoners, 62 prisoners of conscience remain imprisoned in Nicaragua.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ascension-de-donald-trump-crea-incertidumbre-en-el-mundo\"><strong>Donald Trump\u2019s return creates uncertainty worldwide<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>On the international front, Donald Trump\u2019s second presidency has weakened democratic institutions in the United States, strengthening authoritarian tendencies worldwide. <\/p>\n\n<p>Trump launched an offensive against migrants in the United States, as well as against the media, universities, and the judiciary. <\/p>\n\n<p>Internationally, <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/nacion\/suspension-de-usaid-afecta-a-la-sociedad-civil-nicaraguense-en-el-exilio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he eliminated the Agency for International Cooperation (AID)<\/a>, abandoned the historic US alliance with Europe, and launched a new security doctrine aimed at imposing US hegemony while coexisting with Russia and China in their respective spheres of influence. <\/p>\n\n<p>Trump imposed a tariff policy as an instrument of political negotiation, which <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/economy\/trumps-18-tariffs-to-hit-nicaraguan-textile-and-auto-harness-exports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in Nicaragua translated into new 18% taxes on exports<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>In Latin America, the United States maintains an <a href=\"http:\/\/google.com\/search?q=caribe+venezuela+estados+unidos+confidencial.digital&amp;sca_esv=62e345f31140e71e&amp;rlz=1C1VDKB_esCR1186CR1186&amp;ei=DgpOabLFO-yEwbkPvonI6Qs&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiyhOzHsNqRAxVsQjABHb4EMr0Q4dUDegQIBRAN&amp;uact=5&amp;oq=caribe+venezuela+estados+unidos+confidencial.digital&amp;gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiNGNhcmliZSB2ZW5lenVlbGEgZXN0YWRvcyB1bmlkb3MgY29uZmlkZW5jaWFsLmRpZ2l0YWwyCBAAGIAEGKIEMgUQABjvBTIFEAAY7wUyCBAAGIAEGKIEMgUQABjvBUjHKFAAWJMncAB4AJABAJgBxwGgAbsjqgEEMC4zMbgBA8gBAPgBAZgCEaACoBSYAwCSBwQwLjE3oAfIWbIHBDAuMTe4B6AUwgcGMC4xMS42yAcrgAgB&amp;sclient=gws-wiz-serp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">extraordinary military deployment in the Caribbean<\/a>, threatening the dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. Meanwhile, the Norwegian committee awarded the <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/english\/venezuelas-lessons-for-nicaragua-legitimate-leadership-is-needed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado<\/a>, who led the mobilization in the 2024 elections won in a landslide by Edmundo Gonzalez. However, Maduro refused to relinquish power through electoral fraud. <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2025 closes as a decisive cycle in Nicaragua\u2019s recent history, marked by the definitive institutionalization of the totalitarian model of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. 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