Issue Oct 21-27 2026: Newly elected Abelardo de la Espriella rose to office on promises to strengthen state power and recover territorial control of conflicted areas, stressing the idea that the country faced a crisis of authority that had to be resolved by increasing police and military presence in civic life and making criminal policy

Issue Oct 21-27 2026: The Group of Human Rights Experts in Nicaragua (GHREN) warned the United Nations that the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship controls everything in the country and utilizes fear as an “instrument of the government.”

Issue Oct 21-27 2026: The mother and brother of Yasmín Rodríguez, along with their community, provided evidence denying the claim by the Army that she was a member of a dissident group. They insisted that she was never involved in criminal activity, contrary to the claims made by the De la Espriella government.