Nicaragua: a Latin American hotspot for Russian propaganda

A viral network: reach and impact The content disseminated by RT and Sputnik in Nicaragua focuses on confronting the US, NATO and the Western press. It glorifies Russia as a global power and pushes the narrative that Ukraine is a “puppet state.”...

Revealed: Only a third of national climate pledges support ‘transition away from fossil fuels’

Only around a third of the latest country climate pledges submitted to the UN express support for the “transition away from fossil fuels”, according to Carbon Brief analysis. Several countries even have used their 2035 climate plans to commit to...

Latin culture photojournalist Patrick Raycraft on a life of telling visual stories

Photojournalist Patrick Raycraft gave a talk at the UConn Puerto Rican and Latin American Cultural Center (PRLACC) on Oct. 1. The talk was on the experiences of the Latin American and Spanish-speaking world through photographs as a career for...

Ortega’s border business: $6,000 to be able to return to Nicaragua

José David hadn’t left Nicaragua for more than two years. In April, he decided to take advantage of Easter vacations to travel to Miami to visit his aunts and uncles and cousins. Delighted to be reunited as a family, they went to a theme park in...

Pope Leo XIV receives documented report on religious persecution in Nicaragua

(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 10.03.2025).- The plight of Nicaragua’s embattled Catholic Church has reached the desk of Pope Leo XIV, thanks to the determined advocacy of Muriel Sáenz, a Nicaraguan migrant rights defender now based in the United...

ICE issues detainer for Nicaraguan man charged in Virginia Beach nightclub shooting

VIRGINIA BEACH — A Nicaragua citizen charged last weekend with killing a 20-year-old man outside a Virginia Beach nightclub has had a detainer placed on him by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to a jail spokeswoman. Cesar...

UN Experts Say Continuing Repression Of Population Through Enforced Disappearances Must Stop: Nicaragua

OHCHR GENEVA – UN experts* today urged Nicaraguan authorities to clarify the fate and whereabouts of more than 120 people who have been forcibly disappeared in the country, including those detained in connection with the 2018 human rights crisis....

Immigrants laid off after legal immigration status revoked

At a GE Appliances plant in Louisville, Kentucky, 5,000 workers craft kitchen essentials, including 2 million dishwashers per year, according to the company. "Every 15 seconds, per line, I've got a dishwasher coming off the line," Bill Good, the...

Theo Von Explains His Position On Immigration As He Rails Against The Trump Admin. For Using Him In One Of Their DHS Videos

John Nacion/Variety via Getty Images Audio By Carbonatix Comedian and podcaster Theo Von has clarified his position on immigration after calling out the Department of Homeland Security for using a clip of him in one of their social media videos....

Google Translate used with Chinese asylum-seeker at S.F. immigration court

Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. A young Chinese man was arrested at San Francisco’s immigration court on Thursday. He appeared for his hearing at 630 Sansome St. at 10:30 a.m....

‘We are the life of the church right now’: Bishop Chau talks Latino Catholics, inclusion

(RNS) — Pedro Bismarck Chau was 16 years old when he fled military conscription by the Nicaraguan Sandinista government into a civil war against U.S.-backed counterrevolutionaries in 1984. As a teenager, he crossed the U.S. border pretending to be...

How Nicaragua Became and Sustains a Police State

From the April 2018 explosion to deafening silence Photo montage by Confidencial In its attempt to silence the 2018 protests a police memorandum forbid them. Seven years later, the country’s police state apparatus keeps watch and persecutes, under...

‘Thanks to God, I’m here’: The struggle of immigrants and what local Catholics are doing to help

Names of undocumented immigrants who spoke to Northwest Catholic have been changed to protect the privacy and safety of these individuals and their families. Sofia left her home in Oaxaca, Mexico, at a young age. She said her family never told her...

Theo Von, Son of Nicaraguan Immigrant, Says Homeland Security Deportation Clip “Shook Me”

After Theo Von discovered that the Department of Homeland Security had used footage of him for a social media clip that insinuated he was in favor of the administration’s current wave of mass deportations, the popular podcaster and stand-up...

¿Quién es Edwin Moreira? Nicaragüense detrás de la tipografía of Taylor Swift, Life of a Showgirl

El éxito de Taylor Swift parece no conocer límites: récords de ventas, estadios llenos y un ejército de seguidores que convierten cada movimiento suyo en un fenómeno cultural. Y justo cuando su compromiso con Travis Kelce acaparó titulares...

PBS Taught Me English. Shutting It Down Hurts Immigrant Kids.

As a child growing up in a Spanish-speaking, immigrant household, I had limited resources available to teach me English. My parents came to this country out of necessity in the 1980s from war-torn Nicaragua. My father worked in construction and...

Bridging Legacies Through Pittsburgh’s Vibrant Black History, Culture, And Thriving Businesses

Pittsburgh’s vibrant Black history and culture continue to drive the city’s flourishing Black business community. When people think of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, its steel legacy and passionate sports culture usually spring to mind first. But with...

This Couple Serves Uniquely Delicious Nicaraguan-Persian Street Food in L.A.

This story was originally published in español on La Opinión, L.A. TACO is proudly co-publishing it. For many, Los Angeles is a city of opportunity. A place where the hustle never stops. Where a love story that began with two strangers meeting by...

Trump’s immigration crackdown chills SC businesses in need of labor

“Detaining and deporting labor, making other immigrants afraid to go to work, ends up with even a bigger labor shortage,” Knapp said. Immigrant workers afraid on the job Reinaldo Useche is originally from Venezuela, but has called Greenville home...

What you need to know about immigration trends in Wisconsin 

Of the roughly 6.6 million immigrants who landed in the federal immigration court system over the past decade, at least 41,000 listed addresses in Wisconsin. Those immigrants, many of them new arrivals, are now in the spotlight. A small fraction...