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The Nicaraguan tradition of producing utilitarian and decorative ceramics and earthenware continues. Locally crafted earthenware still employs the shapes and motifs found in pre-Columbian pieces. Other local crafts include silverwork, woodcarving, embroidery, and sculpting. Gold filigree is practiced on the Atlantic coast. Performance Arts.

The modern Nicaraguan music style is a blend of several other styles, namely indigenous, European, and Spanish styles. The musical instruments include the likes of the common marimba and others that are found throughout Central America.

A panel of United Nations experts on Wednesday warned that the Nicaraguan government has dismantled the last remaining checks and balances and was “systematically executing a strategy to cement total control of the country through severe human rights violations.”

GENEVA/PANAMA – Nicaragua’s Government is expanding its repression of perceived opponents far beyond its own borders, targeting Nicaraguan citizens abroad as part of an intensifying campaign to silence critics in exile, the UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua said in a new report today. The report, presented to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, documents how the Government of ...