In recent years, despite the fact that research clearly demonstrates that immigrants contribute to economic growth and safer communities, the deportation of immigrants has reached all-time highs.
One year after Nicaraguan uprising, Ortega is back in control
When the political chaos forced my family and me to abandon Managua in June 2018, I felt fairly certain that Ortega’s days were numbered. In a democratic society, I might have been right.
US Intervention Has Facilitated Nicaraguan President’s Ability to Repress Nation
U.S intervention is typically justified in the name of democracy, but in Nicaragua, a deep history of U.S. interventionism has foddered dictator Daniel Ortega's cause.
Will Trump’s Border Wall Keep Mexican Migrants Out or Lock Them In?
Walls typically are designed to keep people out, but in the case of the United States and Mexico, the border fence between these two countries may actually be keeping people in.
Lessons from Mexico for Central American Development
As Mexico's president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, begins to roll out his Central American development plan, he would be wise to look at his own country's development experience over the last three decades.
Why people migrate: A plea for empathy from Nicaragua
The thousands of brave souls currently leaving Nicaragua are not doing so because they want to. Whether due to political persecution or out of economic necessity, they are fleeing for their lives.
Migrant money could be keeping Nicaragua’s uprising alive
Nicaraguan migrants send over US$1 billion home each year. This money has played a changing role in domestic politics – first boosting the Ortega regime and, now, sustaining the uprising against him.
A Tropical Spring in the land of lakes and volcanoes
Like the Arab Spring in 2010-2011, students have been at the epicenter of Nicaragua’s uprising from the beginning, but their discontent has spread like wildfire.
