On Feb.9, 2023, an estimated 222 Nicaraguan political prisoners were released and exiled from the country and sent to the United States. Since 2018, Nicaragua has faced the imprisonment of hundreds of students, journalists and politicians who oppose the country’s government. This event, which has startled the whole country and its citizens around the world, is an outcome of the United States’s involvement in an attempt to protect and advocate for these Nicaraguan citizens’ human rights.