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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
Continuing crackdown on churches and NGOs moves Nicaragua further from democracy to authoritarianismA man prays at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, in August 2022.Oswaldo Rivas/AFP via Getty Images

The 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...

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