Nicaraguan Catholic Bishop Rolando Alvarez speaks to the press at the Santo Cristo de Esquipulas church in Managua, on May 20, 2022. AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega has consolidated his power since popular protests erupted in 2018. INTI OCON/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Protest against the detention of Nicaraguan bishop and regime critic Bishop Rolando Alvarez. EZEQUIEL BECERRA/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A man holds a Nicaraguan flag in favor of peace in Nicaragua. Inti Ocon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
An image of Bishop Rolando Álvarez is pinned to a robe on a statue of Jesus Christ at the Cathedral in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, on Friday. Nicaraguan police on Friday raided Alvarez's residence, detaining him and several other priests in an escalation of tensions between the Catholic Church and the government of Daniel Oretga. Inti Ocon/AP hide caption
Firefighters work to extinguish an apartment building and cars burning after shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, on Monday. Alexei Alexandrov/AP hide caption
Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, lead a rally in the capital Managua in 2018. Alfredo Zuniga/AP hide caption
Nicaraguan author Sergio Ramirez in 2017 upon receiving the Cervantes Prize literary award. Prosecutors have ordered Ramirez' arrest along with other opponents of President Daniel Ortega. Alfredo Zuniga/AP hide caption
Cristiana Chamorro, pre-presidential candidate, gives a press conference in Nicaragua's capital, Managua, in May after the detention of two of her former employees by the national police and their retention for 90 days for alleged laundering of assets. Inti Ocon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A man walks by a mobile health clinic displaying a picture of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega (right) and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, in Managua on April 14, 2020. The government claims to be successfully combating the pandemic but health workers and critics say the toll is likely higher. Inti Ocon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Citizens Work To Expose COVID's Real Toll In Nicaragua As Leaders Claim Success
Two hurricanes destroyed bridges, roads, schools, health clinics and homes. Here is the aftermath in Protección in Honduras' Santa Barbara department on Dec. 11. Edison Umanzur/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Even Disaster Veterans Are Stunned By What's Happening In Honduras
A truck flounders in a flooded street in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, just hours before Hurricane Iota made landfall in the country Monday night. By Tuesday morning, the storm had significantly weakened, but it still poses life-threatening dangers for residents in its path. Getty Images/Getty Images hide caption
This satellite image made available by NOAA shows Hurricane Iota in the North Atlantic Ocean on Monday, at 07:11 EST. NOAA/AP hide caption
Navy members help evacuate people on a boat from the Karata and Wawa Bar communities ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Iota in Bilwi, Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, on Sunday. STR/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Men walk along a flooded road Wednesday in Toyos, Honduras, after heavy rains from Eta caused a river to overflow. Orlando Sierra/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A man rides a bike trough a street with trees fallen by heavy winds of Hurricane Eta on Tuesday in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua. Getty Images/Getty Images hide caption
Satellite imagery of Hurricane Eta. It was upgraded to a major hurricane by the National Hurricane Center on Monday. It is expected to dump 35 inches of rain in some isolated areas of Nicaragua after making landfall. NOAA hide caption
José Alberto "Chepe" Idiáquez, a Catholic priest and rector at a private Jesuit university in Nicaragua, has become an outspoken critic of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Carlos Herrera hide caption
'Pray For Me': Nicaraguan Priest Threatened With Death Reaches Out To Niece In U.S.
Relatives and friends attend the burial of teenager Matt Romero in Managua, Nicaragua, last September. He was shot dead during clashes between anti-government protesters and riot police and paramilitaries. Inti Ocon/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Anti-government demonstrators protest in Granada, Nicaragua. Hundreds of people have been killed in the government's brutal suppression of protests that erupted in April. Alfredo Zuniga/AP hide caption
A woman holds up a Nicaraguan newspaper that published images of some of the people who have died in recent protests there, interrupting Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega at the opening of a dialogue between the government and opposition and civic groups in Managua, on May 16. Alfredo Zuniga/AP hide caption
Nicaraguan refugees fleeing their country due to unrest sleep in a Christian church in San José, Costa Rica, on July 28. Juan Carlos Ulate/Reuters hide caption
A student who had taken refuge at the Church of the Divine Mercy amid a barrage of armed attacks is embraced by a relative on Saturday after he was transported to the Managua Metropolitan Cathedral. Cristobal Venegas/AP hide caption
Students with homemade mortars stand guard behind makeshift shields and barricades Tuesday at the National University in Managua, which has been occupied by protesters for more than a month. Inti Ocon/AFP/Getty Images hide caption