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Essential Security Interests Exceptions and the Limits of Self-Judgment: Implications of Riverside Coffee v Nicaragua
In recent years, national security has increasingly served as a justification to deviate from international law obligations. The ICSID award in Riverside Coffee v Nicaragua has added a new layer to the developing case law on the interplay between essential security interests exceptions and the notion of self-judgment in the context of investment arbitration. Where...
French appeals court rejects award for Nicaragua banana plantation workers
A French appeals court on Tuesday rejected an appeal to enforce compensation for Nicaraguan banana plantation workers harmed by pesticides. The Paris appeals court released a judgment stating that “the sums awarded to each claimant… are manifestly disproportionate.” This confirmed the court of first instance’s previous decision. The case was first brought by workers from...
Nicaragua removes visa-free entry for Cubans amid US pressure
Nicaragua ended visa-free travel for Cuban citizens on Sunday, cutting off a previous pathway for Cubans seeking to enter the US. The order requires Cuban citizens to now carry more than an ordinary passport to travel in Nicaragua. The move shifts from Nicaragua’s “visa-free” policy towards Cuban citizens, implemented in 2021 to promote tourism and...
Section 301 Tariffs Announced Against Nicaragua Over Labor and Human Rights Violations
On December 10th, 2025 the US Trade Representative released the results of the Section 301 investigation initiated in December 2024 into Nicaragua’s alleged violations of labor rights, human rights and the rule of law protections. The investigation detailed extensive infringement of labor and human rights in addition to increasingly authoritative restrictions of individual freedoms and...
Briefing TODAY: High-Stakes Asylum: How Long an Asylum Case Takes and How We Can Do Better
A briefing will feature American Immigration Lawyers Association Greg Chen, along with the main author of the report – High Stakes Asylum – Amy Grenier, and Ashley Hamill, who runs the Immigration Clinic at Florida State University College of Law, her brave client from Nicaragua, and Lindsay Harris. The briefing will run for an hour at...
Crisis Prompts Record Emigration from Nicaragua
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Rapid emigration from Nicaragua has become a challenge for countries across the Americas. Hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans have fled, primarily heading to Costa Rica or the U.S. border. The exodus has been driven by the increasing authoritarianism of President Daniel Ortega. Get a broader perspective with this Migration Policy...
TPS for Nicaraguans
Hundreds of Faith, Service, and Immigration Organizations Urge the Biden Administration to Redesignate Temporary Protected Status for Nicaragua MIAMI, FL- Today, the Florida Immigrant Coalition, along with American Friends Service Committee, released a letter signed by 270 other religious, service, and immigration organizations from across the United States urging the Biden administration to redesignate Temporary...
US Government Imposes New Sanctions and Visa Restrictions on Nicaragua
On October 24, the White House announced that President Biden signed Executive Order (EO) 14088 (amending EO 13851) which substantially expands the Nicaragua sanctions program with sectoral sanctions authorities, exposing individuals and entities operating in identified sectors to blocking sanctions. Specifically, the amended EO identifies the gold sector, which affects about $900 million of exports,...
Cross-Border Philanthropy: Nicaragua Shuts Down 101 Groups; Report on Developments in Asia
The Associated Press reports that in late June the Nicaraguan government closed an additional 101 nonprofit organizations with the approval of the country’s congress, bringing the total shut down over the past four years to over 750. The claimed basis for the most recent closures is an alleged failure to comply with a 2020 “foreign...
Increasing Numbers of Nicaraguan Migrants to the United States
Bernd Debusmann Jr. for the BBC tells about the increasing number of migrants fleeing Nicaragua: “The stories shared by Nicaraguans at [a] shelter [at the U.S./Mexico border] have two common themes: a struggling economy and fear of the government of Daniel Ortega, the leader of Nicaragua’s 1979 Sandinista revolution who earlier this year was sworn...