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Corruption is a serious problem in Nicaragua. [ 1 ] , particularly under the leadership of Daniel Ortega . Transparency International 's 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index gave Nicaragua a score of 14 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean").
The list of countries by homicide rate is derived from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data, and is expressed in number of deaths per 100,000 population per year. For example, a homicide rate of 30 out of 100,000 is presented in the table as "30", and corresponds to 0.03% of the population dying by homicide.
Nicaragua ratified the 2000 UN TIP Protocol in October 2004. [ 1 ] In 2010 Nicaragua was a transit country for migrants from Africa and East Asia en route to the United States; some may have fallen victim to human trafficking.
The National Nicaraguan Police Force (Spanish: La Policía Nacional Nicaragüense) is the national police of Nicaragua.The force is in charge of regular police functions and, at times, works in conjunction with the Nicaraguan military, making it an indirect and rather subtle version of a gendarmerie.
The priests, one in Nicaragua and four outside the country, describe a sharp increase in church surveillance by police and citizen Catholic clergy report surveillance, beatings amid Nicaragua's ...
On 5 March 2020, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned the Nicaraguan National Police (NNP), the main law enforcement entity in Nicaragua, and three NNP commissioners because they are "responsible for human rights abuses in Nicaragua" according to the US Treasury. [11] [12]
The World Report published by the organisation in 2019 highlights various human rights violations believed to have occurred in Nicaragua during the protests. [13] They state that the government along with the National Police began the silencing of anti-government protesters through violent means, resulting in the deaths of 324 people (Sep 2019 ...
The subsequent lack of change in the Nicaragua operation significantly contributed to the eventual further restrictions imposed by Congress in the second version of the Boland amendment. [8] The majority report stated, "The Central Intelligence Agency was the U.S. Government agency that assisted the contras. In accordance with Presidential ...