With Iran’s fundamentally unpopular government weakened by fierce airstrikes, some of its top leaders dead or missing and ...

Leaving former Maduro regime officials in power will increase the odds of a return to dictatorship in Venezuela.

Nicaragua is sometimes called the “tropical North Korea”. Even by the standards of Latin American autocracies, it feels tense in Managua, the capital. Any political talk is hushed for fear that ...

Nicaragua has convicted the historic Sandinista commander Bayardo Arce, a former economic adviser to President Daniel Ortega, on corruption charges and confiscated his assets, the Nicaraguan ...

The man, who’s been living in Eagan and was detained by ICE in June, is fighting to secure asylum. His wife warns he would face jail and violence in Nicaragua. An Eagan man is fighting to keep his ...

Nicaragua's ruling Sandinista regime has seized a prominent Catholic school, claiming without proof that it had operated a "torture" center during past protests and renaming the education facility for ...

In recent weeks, a motley crew of writers has found common cause in attacking Nicaragua’s Sandinista government: Jaden Hong, a high-school student from Sammamish, Washington, who has never visited the ...

July 8 (UPI) --Nicaragua faces a widespread and intensifying political crackdown under President Daniel Ortega, as international organizations report that the persecution now extends beyond the ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica -- A retired Nicaraguan military officer turned outspoken critic of President Daniel Ortega was shot to death Thursday at his home in Costa Rica, authorities said. Roberto Samcam, ...

Then Nicaraguan presidential candidate Violeta Chamorro greeting supporters on a visit to Miami in September 1989 during her campaign, which ended in her February 1990 upset victory over the ruling ...

FILE - Nicaraguan presidential candidate Violeta Chamorro raises her arms as she receives a warm welcome during her visit to Miami on Sept. 17, 1989. SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Violeta Chamorro, an ...

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the Nicaraguan leader whose rule in the 1990s marked the end of the country’s civil war and who served as Latin America’s first elected female president, died on Saturday ...