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By John McPhaul
Faced with President Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations, two Miskitu Indigenous leaders are part of a Nicaraguan delegation asking the United States government to let Nicaraguans who are in the U.S. in exile stay with an extension of Temporary Protection Status (TPS) due to the human rights abuses meted out by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murrillo.
By John McPaul
Nicaraguan Miskitu Indigenous leader Brooklyn Rivera has been disappeared under the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega for 10 months now and the lack of news coming out of the beleaguered country and lack of interest in Rivera's fate has distressed human rights workers.
By Laura Hobson Herlihy
Indigenous Peoples’ rights advocate Brooklyn Rivera (Miskitu), the guiding force of the Nicaraguan Miskitu Peoples for more than 40 years, was arbitrarily and illegally detained at his home in Bilwi-Puerto Cabezas early on September 29, 2023, just five days after his 71st birthday. Ortega’s Sandinista police forces, sent from Managua, illegally seized his property.
Por Bia’ni Madsa’ Juárez López (Ayuuk ja’ay and Binnizá, Equipo de CS)
By Bia’ni Madsa’ Juárez López (Ayuuk ja’ay and Binnizá, CS Staff)
In English
Por José Coleman (Miskitu)
Por Leonzo Knight Julian