MEXICO CITY -- Other countries have lured doctors out of retirement, pushed medical students to the front lines and buoyed medical personnel exhausted by covid-19 cases, but in Nicaragua doctors have ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Nicaragua’s Congress, controlled by the country’s ruling party, has passed a law that would essentially ban opposition candidates from running in the 2021 presidential elections.

Nicaragua’s presidential election scheduled for November was always unlikely to be free and fair, and a crackdown since June has confirmed that. But the opposition and the international community must ...

Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega and his wife and Vice President Rosario Murillo, lead a rally in Managua, Nicaragua. AP MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Nicaragua has created a new National Ministry for ...

In a statement Sunday, President Biden blasted what he called “Nicaragua’s sham elections,” calling Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s reelection “a pantomime election that was neither free nor fair ...

The Nicaragua National Assembly Monday approved a law that will bar opposition politicians from participating in the November 2021 election. The “Law for the Defense of the Rights of the People to ...

La Unión Europea impuso el lunes sanciones a la primera dama y vicepresidenta de Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, y otros siete funcionarios acusados de violaciones de derechos humanos y de atentar contra ...

“That’s unbelievable,” my father-in-law wrote me from Ireland after watching me give a statistic-heavy webinar on the advances for the poor in Nicaragua since 2007. “I know, right?” I replied. “No, I ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega sought a fourth consecutive term in elections Sunday against a field of little-known candidates while those who could have given him a real ...

In the four years since the nationwide protests against the Sandinista regime began in April 2018, the authoritarian regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has doubled down on consolidating its ...

On the sidelines of an international gathering in Costa Rica earlier this year, Secretary of State Antony Blinken tried to make headway with the foreign minister of a government that is increasingly ...