Continuing crackdown on churches and NGOs moves Nicaragua further from democracy to authoritarianism
- Written by Richard Wood, President of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
A man prays at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, in August 2022.Oswaldo Rivas/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Nicaraguan government recently shut down more than 1,500 nonprofits – many of them civic and religious groups doing humanitarian work in a country long mired in political violence, economic upheaval and social...