OAS rights body: Over 70K Nicaraguans in exile due to crisis

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — An international rights body says more than 70,000 Nicaraguans have fled into exile since the Central American country’s political crisis began nearly a year and a half ago.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is a branch of the Organization of American States. Its new number on exiles is up from 50,000, from September 2018.

The commission also says in its Friday report that about 55,000 Nicaraguan exiles chose neighbouring Costa Rica.

The commission says the forced migration is rooted in a human rights crisis in Nicaragua and state repression of protests that erupted in April 2018.

President Daniel Ortega’s government has repeatedly rejected reports by the commission. He has called it “slanted and biased,” and accused its members of “manipulating information.”

The Associated Press

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