Caribbean & Central America - October 2025

In mid-August, retired general Álvaro Baltodano, a former Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) guerrilla, was formally accused of money laundering by Nicaragua’s authoritarian FSLN government led by co-presidents Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo. This followed accusations of treason for which he had already been arrested in May. Baltodano is one of various former Ortega allies to be targeted of late by the Ortega-Murillo government which has been carrying out a brutal crackdown on dissent since April 2018, as the first piece in this October 2025 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Caribbean & Central America explores.

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