Nicaragua lurches into crisis

A damning UN human rights report has put Nicaraguan president, Daniel Ortega, on the back foot. Emily Hohler reports.

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"Nicaragua has quietly become the next Latin American crisis zone," says Harriet Marsden in The Independent. Last week the UN human rights office published a "damning report" into abuses that have taken place since April's protests, which left 300 killed and 2,000 injured. In response, President Daniel Ortega has ordered the expulsion of the UN team and demanded that Costa Rica divulge the names of some of the 26,000 citizens who have sought political asylum there.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.