On Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast, where the mouth of the Escondido River and the Caribbean Sea meet, is Bluefields, Nicaragua.

Nicaragua has withdrawn from the U.N. cultural and educational body UNESCO because of the awarding of a prize celebrating press freedom to a Nicaraguan newspaper, ... the capital, in 1986.

According to the Vatican, Nicaragua has exiled five groups of priests since 2022, most to the United States and Rome — including Bishop Rolando Álvarez, who was jailed for more than a year ...

Out of eight bishops and one cardinal in Nicaragua’s Catholic conference, four are in exile — along with more than 150 clergy and seminarians as well as nearly 100 nuns and religious sisters ...