# State action against the Central American University deepened control of higher education

Date: 2023

The Central American University, a Jesuit institution, became a central target in the government's higher-education crackdown. The IACHR and its special rapporteurships documented harassment and interference connected to the university's support for students involved in the 2018 protests and placed the action within a pattern in which numerous universities had already lost legal status. The Commission described the measures as arbitrary interference with academic freedom. [Organization of American States](https://www.oas.org/en/IACHR/jsForm/?File=%2Fen%2Fiachr%2Fmedia_center%2FPReleases%2F2023%2F201.asp\&utm_source=chatgpt.com)

## Drivers

- Ortega–Murillo family autocracy: https://factrail.ai/drivers/ortega-family-autocracy

## Sources

- https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/nicaragua
- https://www.oas.org/en/IACHR/jsForm/?File=%2Fen%2Fiachr%2Fmedia_center%2FPReleases%2F2023%2F201.asp

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/uca-seizure-academic-freedom-2023