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Scientists have discovered evidence of two hidden magma sources beneath Nicaragua’s Masaya volcano, where satellite observations revealed mysterious ground movements suggesting magma is shifting deep underground. The findings could improve eruption forecasting for the active volcano, which sits near 2 million people and attracts tourists to its spectacular lava lake.
Countries including Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Chile have received warnings after the quake.
The country's crackdown on human rights has left it increasingly isolated in Latin America.
The Organization of American States (OAS) convened an extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers and signed a resolution to demand that Nicaragua hold free and fair elections, release of the 68 political prisoners, information on the 31 missing persons by the State and restitution of nationality to more than 450 Nicaraguans who have become stateless. The demand comes after President Daniel Ortega announced in July that the country would not hold any more elections. Report by our correspondent, Andrés Suárez Jaramillo.
The UN reported that the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo in Nicaragua uses enforced disappearance as a weapon of repression: at least 161 cases since 2018, with 29 persons still missing. Reed Brody, a member of the Group of Experts on Human Rights on Nicaragua (GHREN), a former New York Deputy Prosecutor and a human rights lawyer, addresses the issue in France 24.
The proposal to remove the nationality of those who behave badly has emerged as a hallucinogenic mushroom throughout the world
The informer lives in exile in the United States for the persecution of the Ortega regime's press and was arrested on Monday by the migration authorities
Germany has asked the International Court of Justice to dismiss the case on jurisdiction grounds. It also said its arms exports to Israel were documented, published, and subject to more stringent checks than most.
