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The following lists events in the year 2017 in Nicaragua .
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The following lists events in the year 2017 in Nicaragua .
Miguel Obando y Bravo, SDB was a Nicaraguan prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the Archbishop of Managua from 1970 to 2005. Pope John Paul II created him a cardinal in 1985.
Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann was an American-born Nicaraguan diplomat, politician and Catholic priest of the Maryknoll Missionary Society. As the President of the United Nations General Assembly from September 2008 to September 2009, he presided over the 63rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly. He was also nominated as Libyan Representative to the UN in March 2011. He died on 8 June 2017, having suffered a stroke several months earlier.
La Libertad is a municipality in the Chontales Department of Nicaragua.
Real Madriz Fútbol Club is a Nicaraguan football team playing at the top level. It is based in Somoto.
Rosario María Murillo Zambrana is a Nicaraguan politician and poet who has held the position of Vice President of Nicaragua, the country's second highest office, since January 2017 and First Lady of Nicaragua since 2007 as the wife of President Daniel Ortega. Murillo has served as the Nicaraguan government's lead spokesperson, government minister, head of the Sandinista Association of Cultural Workers, and Communications Coordinator of the Council on Communication and Citizenry. She was sworn in as vice president of Nicaragua on 10 January 2017. In August 2021, she was made subject to personal sanctions by the European Union, over alleged human rights violations.
General elections were held in Nicaragua on 6 November 2011. The incumbent president Daniel Ortega, won a third term in this election, with a landslide victory.
A number of Catholic priests have served in civil office. The Catholic Church discourages this practice.
Moisés Omar Halleslevens Acevedo is the former Vice President of Nicaragua, serving during the third term of President Daniel Ortega.
Corruption remains a serious problem for doing business in Nicaragua. Transparency International's 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index gave Nicaragua a score of 20 on a scale from 0 to 100. When ranked by score, Nicaragua ranked number 164 among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked number 1 is perceived to have the most honest public sector. According to Freedom House, since the election of Daniel Ortega in 2006, corruption had increased in Nicaragua. Nicaragua is ranked 133 of 140 countries in the World Justice Project's Rule of Law Index (2022).
General elections were held in Nicaragua on 6 November 2016 to elect the President, the National Assembly and members of the Central American Parliament. Incumbent President Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) was re-elected for a third consecutive term amid charges he and the FSLN used their control of state resources to bypass constitutional term limits and hamstring political rivals. The FSLN benefited from strong economic growth and relatively low levels of crime compared to neighbouring countries.
The Sixty-third session of the United Nations General Assembly was the session of the United Nations General Assembly that ran from 16 September 2008 to 14 September 2009.
The following lists events in the year 2020 in Nicaragua.
General elections were held in Nicaragua on 7 November 2021 to elect the President, the National Assembly and members of the Central American Parliament.
The following lists events in the year 2021 in Nicaragua.
Alba Luz Ramos Vanegas is a Nicaraguan lawyer and judge. A member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front since the 1970s, she began her career as a civil servant in the 1980s and joined the Supreme Court of Justice as a magistrate in 1988. She became the body’s president in 2002–2003, and resumed the position in 2010. She has held it continuously since then.
The First Lady of Nicaragua is the title attributed to the wife of the President of Nicaragua, or their chosen designee, such as a daughter or other relative. The current incumbent first lady is Rosario Murillo, wife of President Daniel Ortega, who controversially became Vice President of Nicaragua under Ortega in January 2017.
The following lists events in the year 2022 in Nicaragua.
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