Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Latin America’s first elected female president, whose stunning victory at the polls in 1990 helped bring an end to eight years of a civil war in Nicaragua that involved ...

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The long list of victims under Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega’s experiment in totalitarianism continues to grow. Hundreds of his political adversaries and civil society leaders have been jailed, ...

(CNN) — Nicaragua has revoked the registration of 1,500 non-profit organizations, the latest in a years-long crackdown in the small Central American nation. The organizations, which include hundreds ...

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, left, and Vice President Rosario Murillo attend their swearing-in ceremony for a new term in Managua, in January 2022. Xinhua Sipa USA Finally, some good news from ...

MANAGUA (Reuters) - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, angry because the United States is rethinking an aid program, pressed Washington on Monday for billions of dollars in war reparations dating ...

Nicaragua's government outlawed 1,500 non-governmental organizations on Monday in its latest ban of groups it accuses of breaking the law, part of a longstanding crackdown on civil society groups ...

Recently released political prisoners and human rights activists testified before members of Congress Wednesday about the ongoing persecution in Nicaragua, which one witness called an “unholy war ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua’s Sandinista-controlled congress has cancelled nearly 200 nongovernmental organizations this week, ranging from a local equestrian center to the 94-year-old Nicaraguan ...

On this day, June 20, in 1979, Bill Stewart, an ABC reporter covering the Nicaraguan civil war between the U.S.-backed government and the left-wing Sandinistas was shot dead by a Nicaraguan government ...

MANAGUA, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, angry because the United States is rethinking an aid program, pressed Washington on Monday for billions of dollars in war reparations ...