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With hundreds of the country’s reporters in exile, the press is under pressure like never before. But this outlet is ...
After a Nicaraguan human rights activist who had fled to Costa Rica was killed, concern has grown that the Ortega government ...
Violeta Chamorro, who has died aged 95, was the first female president elected in the Americas. A conciliatory figure, she ...
A protected wildlife refuge in Nicaragua has suffered a wave of deforestation in recent years, fueled by controversial land ...
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, an unlikely leader whose rise was fueled by her husband's murder, championed regional ...
Violeta Chamorro, who was thrust into national politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ...
Nicaragua already had two refineries and did not produce any oil. “Who are we going to sell to?” he asked. His boss, Lopez, told him not to worry about “bourgeois nonsense,” he recalled.
The Nicaraguan government announced Wednesday that it has granted political asylum to a leader of Panama’s main construction union, who was facing an arrest warrant for alleged money laundering amid ...
U.S. efforts resulted in the release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners including faith leaders in September 2024.
Violeta Chamorro, whose 1990 upset victory made her Nicaragua's first female president — and ushered peace into civil war-ravaged Central America — was laid to rest this week after dying in exile in ...
Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into national politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ruling Sandinista party in presidential ...
A retired Nicaraguan army officer in exile who fiercely criticized authoritarian President Daniel Ortega was shot dead ...