2020 in Nicaragua

Incumbents

Events

• 17 March - Vice President Rosario Murillo announced that Cuba was going to send doctors and pharmaceuticals to Nicaragua to help deal with COVID-19, despite there being no confirmed cases in the country at the time. Murillo also claimed that medical supplies were sent by Venezuela as well.
• 18 March - The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the country is announced: a 40-year-old man who recently returned to Nicaragua from its neighboring country of Panama.
• 23 August – Bishop Silvio Báez, who has been outside of Nicaragua for reasons of security since April 23, 2019, accuses President Ortega of being a dictator. The Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos says that the Catholic Church has been the victim of 24 attacks since April 2018.
• 9 September – The Pittsburgh Pirates take #21 out of retirement for a game against the Chicago White Sox at PNC Park. 9 September is celebrated by Major League Baseball as "Roberto Clemente Day". Clemente, a Puerto Rico native, died in a plane crash in December 1972 while en route to Nicaragua to deliver disaster relief to victims of an earthquake.
• 14 September – Battle of San Jacinto, national holiday Students and authorities receive the independence torch from their Honduran counterparts at the border post Las Manos, Nueva Segovia Department.
• 15 September – Independence Day, national holiday President Ortega proposes life sentences for political dissidents who commit "hate crimes."
• 16 November – Hurricane Iota: Category 5 hurricane made landfall in Honduras and Nicaragua.
• 10 December – The Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos accuses President Ortega of "passing the limits" on human rights violations, citing 325 deaths during protests since 2018.
• 16 December – The United States says it will continue to exert pressure on Nicaragua to ensure that the 2021 Nicaraguan general election is free and fair.
• 21 December – The Congress passes a law banning terrorists, coup-mongers, and “traitors to the homeland” from running in the 2021 elections.

Scheduled events

• December 8 – Feast of the Immaculate Conception, national holiday
• December 25 – Christmas Day, national holiday

Deaths

• January 5 – David Albin Zywiec Sidor, American-Nicaraguan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Siuna
• February 20 – José Benito López Méndez, leader of an opposition political party.
• March 1 – Ernesto Cardenal, poet and priest.
• May 19 – Carlos Jirón, politician and member of the National Assembly.
• May 25 – Otto de la Rocha, singer, songwriter and actor.
• June 16 – Edén Pastora, politician and revolutionary leader.
• June 23 – César Bosco Vivas Robelo, Roman Catholic prelate and former Bishop of León.