Más de 800.000 nicaragüenses, 11,6 % de la población, han abandonado su país desde 2018
Más de 800.000 nicaragüenses, equivalentes al 11,6 % de la población, han abandonado el país desde abril de 2018, en un éxodo forzado provocado por la represión, la persecución política y la falta de libertades, según denunció una ONG de derechos humanos
TL;DR
- Over 800,000 Nicaraguans have fled the country between April 2018 and November 2025.
- The exodus is attributed to repression, political persecution, and a lack of freedoms.
- The NGO Colectivo de Derechos Humanos para la Memoria Histórica de Nicaragua highlights this issue on International Migrants Day.
- The regime has also confiscated and closed 5,651 civil society organizations and 41 universities.
- 492 Nicaraguans have been stripped of their nationality, and over 307 journalists and an equal number of religious figures have been forced into exile.
- The NGO calls for international denunciation of forced exile as state policy and for protection mechanisms for those fleeing.