Nicaraguan opposition media almost instantaneously blamed the Samcam murder on the Sandinista government, with prominent spokesperson Felix Maradiaga calling it a “political assassination.” The claim ...

The violence in Nicaragua began in April after President Daniel Ortega, a former Marxist guerilla, tried to cut pension benefits. The protests were so widespread that Ortega's government dropped ...

Indigenous communities in the northeastern region of Nicaragua are confronting mounting challenges posed by armed assailants who resort to abductions and killings as tactics.

More than 180 people have died in violent clashes between citizens and pro-government forces over the last two months in Nicaragua.

Nicaraguan police and masked gunmen clashed with anti-government protesters on Tuesday, leaving at least six dead following the suspension of peace talks to quell two months of deadly ...

Armed assailants set fire to a house and gunfire erupted at a street barricade in Nicaragua's capital on Saturday, leaving at least eight people dead and casting a pall over talks aimed at ending ...

Hybrid warfare tactics, including information warfare and the co-opting of human rights groups, make it hard to tell the good guys from the bad in the US-backed coup attempt in Nicaragua in 2018 ...

Temporary Protected Status was never meant to last a quarter of a century,' the Department of Homeland Security said in a ...

Nicaragua faces a widespread and intensifying political crackdown under President Daniel Ortega, as international ...

They have filed legal cases before the UN Human Rights Committee against Ecuador and Nicaragua, representative of a regional pattern of girls forced to become mothers due to sexual violence and a ...

Their first, 300-page report in March 2023 also made little reference to opposition violence, and as result it was strongly criticized in a letter to the UNHRC, organized by the Nicaragua ...

The Nicaraguan government recently shut down more than 1,500 nonprofits – many of them civic and religious groups doing humanitarian work in a country long mired in political violence, economic ...