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Nicaragua’s congress bans four universities and six aid groups

NIcaragua Managua University Politecnica de Nicaragua protests 2018

Managua, NicaraguaAP Nicaragua’s National Assembly, controlled by President Daniel Ortega, outlawed four private universities Wednesday, some linked to the Roman Catholic Church.  The best known of the schools whose legal standing was canceled by the assembly is Polytechnical University of Nicaragua, which was a hotbed of antigovernment protests in 2018.  Protesters yell from behind the […]