An elderly couple dances at the cultural tourism center El Ateneo de Nicaragua in Managua on June 18, 2023. Founded in 1996, El Ateneo Club is a favorite place for people, mostly retirees, to gather ...

Traditional dishes and Rojita, Nicaragua’s bright-red bubblegum soda, are not all Eda’s has to offer. While cuisine is undoubtedly a part of a country’s culture, Eda’s has managed to encapsulate not ...

The state-run Institute of Nicaraguan Culture estimates that around 1617 was the first time that the dance of the Chinegros was practiced, the dance-game of dueling with handmade whips that is a ...

For a small country, Nicaragua has produced a remarkable literary and poetic tradition, one steeped in utopian politics. As the country’s most famous poet, Rubén Darío, famously remarked, “If small is ...

The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, hasn’t declared a truce in its persecution of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, not even during Holy Week.

LEÓN, Nicaragua — I was roaming through an art gallery on a spring afternoon when a brass band shattered the silence. Outside, six men bore a platform supporting a papier-mâché Virgin Mary ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The Tico Times of Costa Rica is reporting that a $6-million budget ...

Harlem Gutierrez and her 12-year-old daughter, Kimberly Ruiz, wore brightly colored dresses to celebrate their Nicaraguan culture. Gutierrez’s featured images of flowers, maracas and a woman ...

The tradition started Dec. 7, 1857, in Leon, ... Nicaraguan religious and cultural celebration. When: 6 to 11 p.m. Saturday. Where: West Flagler Street at Southwest 107th Avenue.

The Unity Alliance of Southern Idaho hosted a heartwarming celebration of Nicaraguan culture to foster cultural understanding and unity within the community. “We decided to celebrate it, so we ...

In his highly original book, Chávez seeks the literary and philosophical roots of three very different Nicaraguan regimes: the modernizing, authoritarian Somoza dictatorship (1937–79), the ...