At a swearing-in ceremony on Friday in the small northern city of Ocotal, national police chief Francisco Diaz described the ...

The new Constitution tailored by the presidential couple legitimizes the ‘volunteer police’ and gives the Sandinista flag ...

Ten of the country’s 15 regions lack any type of journalists, who have been expelled, persecuted, or detained by the Ortega ...

That’s how Nicaragua’s Nov 7 election is shaping up after the government of Daniel Ortega arrested and disqualified every major opposition candidate running against him, including his last ...

Nicaragua has become one of the 20 most dangerous countries in the world for Christians, according to the International ...

More than 2,000 Nicaraguan civilians wearing masks to conceal their faces were sworn in this week as what authorities called "volunteer police," but which exiled opposition figures said amounted to ...

“The most unpleasant icing on the democratic cake for the United States was the sensational announcement by Daniel Ortega, president of Nicaragua. He allowed Russian troops, ships, and planes ...

In a continued assault on civil society and religious freedom, Nicaragua's government dissolved multiple nonprofit ...

The migration issue could be a point of conflict between the administrations of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and ...

Save the Children International said Wednesday that it was closing its operations in Nicaragua, where President Daniel Ortega has overseen a clampdown on nonprofit, rights and religious groups.

1823 - Nicaragua becomes part of the United Provinces of Central America, which also comprises Costa Rica, El Salvador, ...

Nicaragua is striving to overcome the after-effects of dictatorship, civil war and natural calamities, which have left it one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Under the ...