At least 229 people detained in Nicaragua for political reasons have suffered various forms of torture and other "crimes against humanity" at the hands of the government over the past seven years ...

The White House announced Thursday that Nicaragua has agreed to release 135 political prisoners, including 13 affiliated with an Austin-area evangelical missionary church, in a deal brokered by ...

The Nicaraguan government released more than 200 political prisoners, many of whom arrived in the United States on Thursday, according to officials, following years of repression by the country ...

Nicaragua has been in political and social upheaval since big street protests that broke out in April 2018 became a referendum on Ortega’s rule. More than 200,000 Nicaraguans have fled the ...

Associated Press. MEXICO CITY — The Sandinista National Liberation Front completed its political domination of Nicaragua on Monday as electoral officials said it had won control of all the ...

MEXICO CITY — Some 222 inmates considered by many to be political prisoners of the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega flew to Washington on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony ...

Nicaragua has canceled the citizenship of 94 political opponents, ... In the run-up to Ortega’s reelection in November 2021, ...

NPR's Eyder Peralta recently visited Nicaragua for the first time in a decade, ... It survived civil war and political strife. ... would have to watch it on the big screens set up across the country.

Under Ortega, Nicaragua has experienced the world’s largest decline in freedom over the past decade, and has been rated Not Free by Freedom House’s annual Freedom in the World report since its ...

Since taking office in 2007, Daniel Ortega has funneled more than $4 billion in Venezuelan petro-dollars through 'Albanisa', a spider's web of companies controlled by the Sandinista Front, outside ...

The Sandinista National Liberation Front completed its political domination of Nicaragua on Monday as electoral officials said it had won control of all the country's 153 municipalities in ...