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![One year after massive protests, Nicaraguan government remains ensconced in power](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2019/04/25/NCov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
One year after massive protests, Nicaraguan government remains ensconced in power
This month marks the one-year anniversary since the citizens of Nicaragua began a fierce civic uprising against President Daniel Ortega’s administration. A former leader in the Sandinistas, Ortega has faced international criticism over his elimination of term limits, and the revival of broad censorship and repression of the late ‘70s and ‘80s.
![CIA archives show ties between the Honduran Border Caravan and the Reagan Administration](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2019/01/25/HonCov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
CIA archives show ties between the Honduran Border Caravan and the Reagan Administration
For years, the Central Intelligence Agency was involved in funding and organizing anti-communist movements in Honduras, with deadly results. Files uncovered in the CIA archives illustrate how modern political unrest in the country - including the so-called “migrant caravan” - has its ties directly back to U.S. foreign policy.
![Help release the FBI’s files on notorious CIA-tied drug smuggler Barry Seal](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/09/25/sealescobar.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Help release the FBI’s files on notorious CIA-tied drug smuggler Barry Seal
In response to a FOIA request filed by Emma Best back in June, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has located close to 22,000 pages of records on Adler Berriman “Barry” Seal, a notorious drug smuggler with ties to the Central Intelligence Agency, whose life was most recently fictionalized in the 2017 film American Made.
![CIA releases full Contras manual on "Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare"](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2017/12/18/ContraCov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
CIA releases full Contras manual on “Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare”
In response to a FOIA appeal by Emma Best, the Central Intelligence Agency has released in full a copy of “Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare,” a manual on “Armed Propaganda” written for the Nicaraguan Contras during the civil war of the mid-’80s.