Stockholm university
Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies

NICARAGUA - The forgotten dictatorship - Open Seminar

Seminar

Date: Wednesday 5 November 2025

Time: 18.00 – 19.30

Location: Stockholm University - NILAS Library - Universitetsvägen 10 B, (hus B, plan 5)

Current situation and scenarios for the future - Open Seminar

Daniel Ortega y Rosario Murillo en el Desfile en conmemoración de las Fiestas Patrias 2024
Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo at the parade in Managua commemorating the 2024 National Holidays, “Fiestas patrias”. Foto: el19digital.com - Consejo de Comunicación y Ciudadanía del Gobierno de Nicaragua, CC0

In this seminar, two prominent Nicaraguan experts will focus on the current situation in the country, as well as venture into key topics for the future:

  • the importance of civil society for a transition with justice
  • the role of indigenous communities in the reconstruction process.

As the experts holds, former revolutionary Daniel Ortega has transformed Nicaragua into a traditional Latin American dictator. Together with his wife, Vice-President Rosario Murillo, Ortega is now preparing for the installation of their family as a new dictatorial dynasty in Nicaragua. All this in the context of high repression, that has so far been successful. There is no visible opposition, the space for civil  society is closed and even the Catholic church is being persecuted. At an overall level, the  economy is in crisis and remittances from Nicaraguans abroad are keeping families afloat. Another source of income is the brutal expansion of gold mining, that has become one of the main  pillars of the governmental budget. In order to secure this exploitation, indigenous leaders have been imprisoned and their communities invaded by land grabbers and mining companies. But protests have been quelled and international solidarity is scant.

 

Speakers

Anexa Cunningham
Foto: Private

Anexa Alfred Cunningham, from the Miskitu people on Nicaragua’s east coast, is a lawyer and currently the President of the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP). She is exiled in Switzerland. 

 

 


 

Silvio Prado
Foto: Private

Silvio Prado Ortiz is a political scientist specialised in civil society and municipal development. He lives in exile in Spain, from where he regularly contributes to various publications on developments in Nicaragua.

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Theme
Society, Democracy and Welfare - Theme page Economy and Society - Theme page
Research subjects
Democracy in Latin America Social movements and inequalities in Latin America Development Studies in Latin America

Last updated: October 8, 2025

Source: Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies

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