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 ...

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 ...

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

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

The official government newspaper La Gaceta announced on Jan. 8 the “voluntary dissolution” of 11 of these organizations, ...

Bishop Álvarez, whose homilies denounced the excesses of the Ortega-Murillo government, is perhaps the most prominent voice ...

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.

Electoral authorities loyal to the ruling party declared Maduro the winner hours after polls closed on July 28, but unlike in ...