Please find attached some documents that provide information on the Unión Nacional de Estudiantes de Nicaragua (National Union of Students of Nicaragua, UNEN).

The most detailed information on the UNEN currently available to the DIRB is provided in the attached section of Youth Movements of the World. The attached excerpt from Nicaragua: A Country Guide provides information on student movements in general, with a brief reference to UNEN.

The available sources name different presidents of UNEN for the years 1989, 1990 and 1992. A passage in a 1990 book (not attached) names Jorge Cerrato as the president of the union (Women and Revolution in Nicaragua 1990, 129).

One of the attached documents refers to the UNEN in the context of a student strike in July 1992 (Central America Update 24 July 1992). The strike involved approximately 28,000 students from at least five universities, including the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (National University of Engineering, UNI). Another attachment provides further details on the strike, although it does not specifically name the UNEN (Central America Report 21 Aug. 1992, 1-2).

This response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.

Central America Report [Guatemala]. 21 August 1992. "Students Act Up Over Budget."

Central America Update [New Mexico]. 24 July 1992. "Nicaragua: Summary of Protests by Students, Bus Drivers and Retired Military Officers." (NEXIS)

Women and Revolution in Nicaragua. 1990. Edited by Helen Collinson. London: Zed Books.

Angel, William D. 1990. Youth Movements of the World. London: Longman Publishing Group, pp. 404-05.

Barry, Tom and Kent Norsworthy. 1990. Nicaragua: A Country Guide. Albuquerque, N. Mex.: The Inter-Hemispheric Education Resource Center, p. 110.

Central America Report [Guatemala]. 21 August 1992. "Students Act Up Over Budget," pp. 1-2.

Central America Update [New Mexico]. 24 July 1992. "Nicaragua: Summary of Protests by Students, Bus Drivers and Retired Military Officers." (NEXIS)