Nicaragua’s government confirmed to The Associated Press that it suspended an exemption that allows Cubans to enter the Central American nation without a visa.

MEXICO CITY, ‌Feb ​8 (Reuters) - Nicaragua ‌has ended visa‑free ​entry for ‍Cuban citizens effective ​Sunday, ​halting ⁠a policy that in recent years enabled thousands of Cubans ‌to use the Central ​American country ‌as ‍a transit ⁠point on their journey to the United States.

“We look for the poorest patients,” the Cuban doctor in charge of the eye clinic said. “Often we travel to remote rural areas and bring them to the clinic in a bus.” The clinic, in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua, was part of Misión Milagro (Miracle ...

MIAMI (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday that it has begun notifying hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans that their temporary permission to live and work in the United States has been revoked and ...

The announcement may have been prompted by something else: The day before, the U.S. embassy in Nicaragua jawboned the ruling Sandinista regime with an X post stating, “In Nicaragua, more than 60 people remain unjustly detained or disappeared, including pastors, religious workers, the sick, and the elderly. Peace is only possible with freedom!”