Dr. Ruth H. Matamoros-Mercado (Miskitu) is a scholar and Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography & Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From an interdisciplinary perspective, her work bridges law, geography, and Indigenous studies to understand and raise awareness of the struggles for land, community resistance, and environmental justice in Central America. Originally from the northern Moskitia region of Nicaragua, Dr. Matamoros-Mercado brings to her research a perspective deeply rooted in the lived experience of the Miskitu people.

By Radio Yapti Tasba Bila Baikra

By John McPhaul

Faced with President Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations, two Miskitu Indigenous leaders are part of a Nicaraguan delegation asking the United States government to let Nicaraguans who are in the U.S. in exile stay with an extension of Temporary Protection Status  (TPS) due to the human rights abuses meted out by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murrillo.
 

​By John McPhaul

By John McPhaul

By John McPhaul

By John McPaul
 

Nicaraguan Miskitu Indigenous leader Brooklyn Rivera has been disappeared under the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega for 10 months now and the lack of news coming out of the beleaguered country and lack of interest in Rivera's fate has distressed human rights workers.

By Laura Hobson Herlihy 

Indigenous Peoples’ rights advocate Brooklyn Rivera (Miskitu), the guiding force of the Nicaraguan Miskitu Peoples for more than 40 years, was arbitrarily and illegally detained at his home in Bilwi-Puerto Cabezas early on September 29, 2023, just five days after his 71st birthday. Ortega’s Sandinista police forces, sent from Managua, illegally seized his property. 

In English

Por Bia’ni Madsa’ Juárez López (Ayuuk ja’ay and Binnizá, Equipo de CS)

En español
 

By Bia’ni Madsa’ Juárez López (Ayuuk ja’ay and Binnizá, CS Staff)

En español 

By José Coleman (Miskitu)

In English

Por José Coleman (Miskitu)