CASE STUDY: EXILED NICARAGUAN
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN COSTA RICA
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Executive Summary.........................................................................................
1
Nicaraguan Human Rights Defenders in Costa Rica: Brief Context ............
5
The Case of Nicaraguan Human Rights Defenders.......................................
8
Some Emerging Lessons and Challenges for the Future..............................
17
Strategic Recommendations for Programming............................................
18
Annex 1: List of Interviews.............................................................................. 20
Annex 2: Bibliography......................................................................................
22
Endnotes ..........................................................................................................
25
This report was made possible through the generous support of the National
Endowment for Democracy (NED). Freedom House is solely responsible for the
report’s content.
RESEARCH AND EDITORIAL TEAM
The Freedom House Team members included experts and specialists Jonathan
Eoloff, Ana Cristina Nuñez, Juan Navarrete Monasterio, and Ana Quiros Víquez;
Gerardo Berthin, Freedom House Director for Latin America and Caribbean
Programs; Alessandra Pinna, Freedom House Deputy Director for Latin America
and Caribbean Programs; and Olivia Magnanini, Freedom House Research/Program
Associate provided editorial assistance for the report. The complete report and
the two individual case studies on Nicaragua and Venezuela, can be found on our
website at www.freedomhouse.org.
ON THE COVER
Nicaraguans living in Costa Rica demonstrate in San José to commemorate the
third anniversary of the beginning of
the protests against the government of
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, on
April 18, 2021. Nicaragua's political crisis
erupted in April 2018, when protests
mushroomed into a popular uprising
that was met with a brutal crackdown
in which hundreds were killed. (Image
Credit: EZEQUIEL BECERRA/AFP via
Getty Images)