Annual Report 2018
CHAPTER IV. B NICARAGUA I. INTRODUCTION 1. The Inter-American Commission (hereinafter “the Commission,” “the Inter-American Commission,” or “the IACHR”) has been monitoring with special attention the progressive deterioration of the human rights situation in Nicaragua, especially since the start of violence on April 18, 2018 in the context of the state’s repression of protests. 2. On May 3, 2018, the IACHR announced the establishment of the Rapid and Integrated Response Coordination Unit (Sala de Coordinación y Respuesta Oportuna—SACROI), for the purpose of focusing special attention on the human rights situation in Nicaragua using its various mechanisms.1 Because the protests against the state’s repression did not stop, the President of Nicaragua expressed his receptiveness to a National Dialogue, in which the Catholic Church would participate as mediator. The Church requested the Commission to visit the country as one of the principal conditions to establish the dialogue group.2 On May 13, 2018, the state of Nicaragua consented to have the Commission make a working visit “for the purpose of observing onsite the human rights situation in Nicaragua in the context of the events from April 18 up to the present date.”3 3. On May 17 to 21, 2018, the Commission made a working visit to the country and issued its preliminary observations with 15 initial recommendations addressed to the state.4 On June 20, 2018, the state of Nicaragua transmitted to the IACHR the agreements reached at the sessions of June 15 and 16 in the National Dialogue, among which the following was indicated: “1.
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