I grew up watching democracy in Nicaragua slowly disintegrate, one small step after another. Now here, in the land of the ...

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

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 ...

After a Nicaraguan human rights activist who had fled to Costa Rica was killed, concern has grown that the Ortega government ...

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

Violeta Chamorro, who has died aged 95, was the first female president elected in the Americas. A conciliatory figure, she ...

Daniel Ortega led a leftist revolution against dictatorship in the 1970s. Decades later, he has become the very thing he once opposed. With his wife by his side, he’s created a dynastic regime marked ...

A new policy brief released by Open Doors has exposed as a systematic campaign of repression against Christian communities in Nicaragua.

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ruling Sandinista party in ...

A retired Nicaraguan army officer in exile who fiercely criticized authoritarian President Daniel Ortega was shot dead Thursday in neighboring Costa Rica, his family and officials said.

U.S. efforts resulted in the release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners including faith leaders in September 2024. All were taken to Guatemala and found new homes elsewhere. Their release ...