Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega and his wife are set to assume absolute power after loyalist lawmakers Friday approved a ...

The five-person panel is made up of government supporters Nicaragua's congress has set up a commission to look into the deaths of dozens of anti-government demonstrators. The protesters ...

As Nicaragua's weakened opponents expend themselves in jail or exile or in rivalries, communist strongman Daniel Ortega has amended the constitution yet again, to lock himself and his family into ...

Nicaragua has been going through a political and social crisis since April 2018, which was accentuated after the controversial general elections of November 7, 2021, in which Ortega was reelected ...

Professor Cymene Howe from the Department of Anthropology at Rice University delivered a lecture yesterday on the politics of sexual rights in Nicaragua in anticipation ... and put in jail or prison ...

President Daniel Ortega has denied the detainees are "political prisoners ... because I won't shut up," she told local media. Viewpoint: 'Ortega's Nicaragua crisis evokes memories of past ...

A motorcyclist rides past a mural of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, left, and revolutionary hero Cesar Augusto Sandino during general elections in Managua, Nicaragua ... “We think these are a set ...

“Political prisoners don't ... visits as often as international standards set. Maradiaga has only had one in 55 days, according to him. Nicaragua requested to leave the OAS in November, after ...

Bruce M. Wilson, University of Central Florida, Political Science Quarterly "Political Culture and Institutional Development in Nicaragua and Costa Rica: World-Making in the Tropics is a bold and ...