Violeta Chamorro’s daughter, Cristiana Chamorro, was held under house arrest for months in Nicaragua and then convicted of money laundering and other charges as Ortega moved to ...

With hundreds of the country’s reporters in exile, the press is under pressure like never before. But this outlet is ...

Nicaragua’s dictatorial government on Thursday freed 135 political prisoners, including 13 members of a Texas-based evangelical Christian organization, in a secret operation negotiated by the ...

Nicaragua released 135 political prisoners — including 13 people affiliated with an American evangelical church — on humanitarian grounds on Thursday in a deal brokered by the U.S. government ...

Latin America’s first elected female president won a surprise victory over Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega and demobilized army troops.

Despite recent mass releases and deportations in Nicaragua, around 40 political prisoners remain in Ortega’s jails, according to multiple news reports. Advertisement.

U.S. efforts resulted in the release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners including faith leaders in September 2024.

He returned to Nicaragua more than a year later and was running for president against Ortega in 2021 when he and other candidates were jailed alongside nearly 200 others, considered political ...

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 ...

Nicaraguan authorities released 135 political and religious prisoners following international pressure, but many critics of the government still remain behind bars amid the ongoing crackdown ...

Reuters. A demonstrator holds a national flag during a candlelight vigil protest for the political prisoners in Managua , Nicaragua, on October 3, 2019.REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas/File Photo ...

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 ...