Nicaragua | Program Director, Migration, Remittances & Development
Manuel Orozco is the director of the Migration, Remittances and Development Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. He also serves as a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Development and as a senior adviser with the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
Orozco has conducted extensive research, policy analysis and advocacy on issues relating to global flows of remittances as well as migration and development worldwide. He is chair of Central America and the Caribbean at the US Foreign Service Institute and senior researcher at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University.
Orozco frequently testifies before Congress and has spoken before the United Nations. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Texas at Austin, a MA in public administration and Latin American studies, and a BA in international relations from the National University of Costa Rica.
Orozco has published widely on remittances, Latin America, globalization, democracy, migration, conflict in war torn societies, and minority politics. His books include International Norms and Mobilization for Democracy (2002), Remittances: Global Opportunities for International Person-to-Person Money Transfers (2005), América Latina y el Caribe: Desarrollo, migración y remesas (2012) and Migrant Remittances and Development in the Global Economy (2013).
Las acciones recientes del gobierno de Daniel Ortega incitando la violencia, permitiendo la humillación y la tortura policial, fomentando que otros hagan lo mismo, representan la continuidad de la autoridad política por la vía de la transgresión.
El régimen Ortega-Murillo exhibe no sólo ausencia de democracia, sino además incumplimiento de acuerdos comerciales.
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El 25 de Noviembre de 2019, la Comisión de Alto Nivel acerca de Nicaragua de la OEA, presentó su informe en relación a la situación de la democracia en este país al Consejo Permanente de la OEA. Manuel Orozco, Director del Programa de Migración, Remesas y Desarrollo del Diálogo, fue invitado a compartir sus opiniones acerca del informe, así como acerca del futuro del proceso democrático en Nicaragua.
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