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 left the country between April 2018 and November 2025.
- This represents 11.6% of Nicaragua's total population.
- The exodus is attributed to repression, political persecution, and lack of freedoms under the current regime.
- The NGO Colectivo de Derechos Humanos para la Memoria Histórica de Nicaragua reported these figures on the International Migrants Day.
- The regime has also confiscated and closed 5,651 civil society organizations and 41 universities.
- 492 Nicaraguans have been denationalized, and over 307 journalists and an equal number of religious individuals have been forced into exile.
- The NGO accuses the government of stealing properties and committing crimes against humanity.
- The policy of exile and confiscation is valued at at least $250 million.
- The NGO calls on the international community to denounce exile as a state policy and to pressure for human rights violations.
- The current crisis has caused a larger exodus than during the civil war in the 1980s.