Press Mentions

Es un autoaislamiento táctico alineado con estados agresores y su sostenimiento ha sido accidental: endeudamiento y remesas. Ambos suman el 35 por ciento del ingreso nacional [de Nicaragua], más un comercio exterior que no afecta a los capitales transnacionales.

Los últimos años han sido un período muy importante para las remesas en América Latina y el Caribe, en cuanto al peso económico que representa para las economías nacionales. Ha sido un tercer año consecutivo en el que el peso económico de este flujo de dinero ha sido bastante significativo.

Penalizar a los miembros de las fuerzas armadas [de Nicaragua], así como a las entidades que apoyan su modus vivendi, como el fondo de pensiones de las fuerzas armadas, es una medida clave de rendición de cuentas.

To Ortega, the relationship with China is akin to Castro's ties to the Soviet Union in the 1960s. Unfortunately for Ortega, times have changed, and China [is hanging by a thread] when it comes to unnecessarily provok[ing] the United States over a country like Nicaragua.

What the Nicaraguan government is doing is a form of indirect aggression against the US. It's a complicated issue because everyone has the right [to] free movement.

[Ortega's government was facilitating] the business of a network of international air services [so that migrants] can reach the border with Mexico and the United States faster.

Migrants have basically, to some extent, helped compensate [for soaring inflation in their home countries] by sending a little bit more [remittances] than they usually send.

No hay otro precedente en la historia con tanta gran salida [migratoria], ni siquiera durante las guerras civiles de la década de 1980.

Opening a large-scale passage for tens of thousands of impoverished migrants has a destabilizing effect throughout the region as they strain limited government resources and cause growing unrest among local communities.

Para Ortega y Murillo es oficial y públicamente expresado que Estados Unidos es un país 'enemigo, conspirador y propiciador de golpes de Estado,' de modo que el régimen de manera premeditada ha facilitado [migración] de forma directa.

The magnitude of the flights [from Haiti to Nicaragua is] just completely unusual...and it represents a security risk.  

What the Nicaraguan government is doing is basically using migration as an exercise of hitting the United States.

The Ortega government knows they have few important policy tools at hand to confront the United States, [...] so they have armed migration as a way to attack. 

We have an international community that is in denial on how to deal with Venezuela, how to deal with Haiti, how to deal with Nicaragua...and these (transit) countries are the ones facing the consequences.