section_path: Government/Foreign relations
section_name: Foreign relations
paragraph_text: Foreign relations
  
  Nicaragua pursues an independent foreign policy. Nicaragua is in territorial disputes with Colombia over the Archipelago de San Andrés y Providencia and Quita Sueño Bank and with Costa Rica over a boundary dispute involving the San Juan River.
  
  Since 2019, human rights in Nicaragua have been rated not free.
  
  On 12 October 2022, Nicaragua voted against condemning Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.