The Persecution of Nicaragua’s ‘De Facto Stateless’: The Last Border of Ortega and Murillo’s Repression · Global Voices

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Journalist Néstor Arce was on his way to Spain to receive the Ortega and Gasset prize in May 2022 when, in Costa Rica, at the Iberia airline's own counter, he was told that he could not travel because his passport had been reported as “stealed” by Nicaragua's immigration authorities. That the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) had issued an alert for his U.S. visa, supposedly lost. He did everything to try to find out what was goi…