Nicaragua is withdrawing from the Central American Parliament, furthering its isolation on \u200bthe international stage as the country is accused of \u200crampant human rights abuses.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said that it had decided to denounce the 1987 treaty \u200bestablishing the six-country parliament “in the full exercise of its \u200bsovereignty”. It said the move would take immediate \u2060effect.<\/p>\n
The government of Nicaragua did not immediately respond to \u200ba request for further comment.<\/p>\n
The action followed a resolution on \u200bFriday from the Organisation of American States (OAS) that called on Nicaraguan authorities to free political prisoners and restore civil liberties. Nicaragua left the OAS \u200bin 2023, saying the diplomatic organization had become a \u200btool for United States (US) interventionism.<\/p>\n
In 2025, Nicaragua also said it would withdraw from \u200cthe \u2060United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council following a UN report that urged the international community to address human rights violations by Nicaragua.<\/p>\n
Nicaragua has been in the grip of a political \u200bcrisis since April \u200b2018, when \u2060social protests that were suppressed by police resulted in more than 350 deaths, 2 000 injuries \u200band thousands of detentions and people fleeing \u200bthe country.<\/p>\n
Last \u2060July, the government run by Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, announced the country would no longer hold elections. \u2060Ortega has \u200bcontinuously held power since 2007 \u200bfollowing an earlier presidential term in the 1980s.<\/p>\n
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