New Electoral Law Nullifies Citizens’ "Political Participation" in Nicaragua’s Decisions, Warns the Urnas Abiertas ...

Proxy wars, a phenomenon where external pow­ers support opposing sides in a conflict in order to influence the outcome of the conflict and ad­vance their own strategic interests, have become a ...

Former Sandinista commander Henry Ruiz, 81, is under house arrest in Nicaragua as Ortega’s regime targets critics. Read the latest on this crackdown.

Testimonies of Nicaraguans with parole describe the uncertainty of imminent deportation: “We don’t know if we’ll be able to ...

Nicaragua announced last week it is withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council, following a U.N. report that slammed the government’s human ...

The ‘co-presidential’ couple has sworn in an army made up mostly of civil servants, who appear in public while wearing ...

Nicaragua has withdrawn from the United Nations Human Rights Council following a damning report by U N experts accusing ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Nicaraguan government has dismantled the last remaining checks and balances and was “systematically executing a strategy to cement total control of the country through severe ...

(Photo: IHNCA) Recently coming to power, the Sandinistas sought support in the defunct Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). In March 1980, a few months after the fall of the dictatorship of ...