Two Thousand Licenses Gone: Nicaragua's Silent Purge of Its Legal Class

The Ortega government stripped a fifth of the country's lawyers from the Supreme Court registry overnight, a bureaucratic stroke that empties courtrooms and silences the last institutional check on executive power.

Nicaragua has revoked the work permits of two thousand lawyers, stripping them from the Supreme Court registry without a word of explanation. [1] The number is staggering. In a single administrative stroke, a significant portion of the country's legal professionals woke up to find they could no longer practice law, represent clients, or step inside a courtroom as counsel. The mechanism is simple and brutal: remove the license, remove the lawyer, remove the challenge.

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