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 ...

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 ...

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

Effective Sept. 6, deportation protections for an estimated 72,000 Hondurans and 4,000 Nicaraguans who have been living and ...

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Monday launched the blueprints for a 445-kilometer long canal through his country linking the Caribbean SSea with the Pacific Ocean, which would be an ...

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

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

One Nicaraguan journalist escaped a crackdown on press freedom to seek asylum in the U.S. Now she feels hunted again, as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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