Preparations for popular, often daylong Lent and Holy Week processions are underway across Latin America — but not in Nicaragua. They’ve been largely banned for a second year, one of many concerns for ...

Many of the violations of religious liberty recorded in the report were committed against Catholics, who make up 43% of Nicaragua’s population. Over the last year, authorities arbitrarily ...

A detailed picture of labor market developments in Nicaragua for the past 10 years In spite of considerable ... closely tracking the growth trend of the working-age population; Productivity and real ...

Today, Nicaragua is struggling to overcome decades of dictatorship, civil war and natural disasters, which have left it one of the region’s poorest countries. Nicaraguans are proud of their country’s ...

This provides the population with free health cover and ... to 130 per 100,000 (the country has a target of 42.5 per 100,000) Nicaragua faces a triple burden of disease - infectious diseases ...

In its annual report published in March, the U.S. government’s Commission on International Religious Freedom denounced conditions in Nicaragua as “abysmal.” More than 80% of the population ...