NPR's Eyder Peralta recently visited Nicaragua for the first time in a decade, gaining rare access to a nation that is hostile to journalists and... I returned to Nicaragua, where I was born, and ...

Nicaragua's paramilitary groups are allegedly ordered to help repress protesters from the highest ranks of government Nicaragua’s military chief has denied the presence of paramilitary groups in the ...

I was 13 years old the day I got braces on my teeth and the United States bombed Baghdad, launching the “first” Iraq war. “Today, Wednesday the 16th of January 1991, we had just gotten out of the ...

Nicaragua has been locked in a turbulent political crisis since April 2018. After years of discontent with leftist president Daniel Ortega’s growing authoritarianism, peaceful anti-government protests ...

In a recent report by Global Witness, Latin America was again identified as one of the most dangerous regions for those protecting forests, halting mining projects, opposing big dams, and taking other ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - In a one-two punch, Hurricane Iota roared ashore along almost exactly the same stretch of Nicaragua's Caribbean coast recently devastated by an equally powerful hurricane and ...

JONESBORO -- It's been 18 months since Norchad Omier left Bluefields, Nicaragua. Naturally, the 19-year-old misses home. Family, friends and the seafood of the Caribbean coast feel distant. In ...

The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, canceled the legal status of Radio María Nicaragua along with that of several evangelical churches. The ...

People hold up a crucifix during the Good Friday procession in the courtyards of the Metropolitan Cathedral, in Managua, Nicaragua March 29, 2024. (OSV News/Maynor Valenzuela, Reuters) The ruling ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — On Father’s Day last year, Octavio Enríquez shared pizza and soda with his two children. Then he told them he was leaving. A Nicaraguan journalist known for rigorous ...

TO SHOW HOW her husband would hit her, Ana (not her real name) makes a fist with her slender fingers and swings. He began soon after their marriage when she was 16: he was bullied at work but brutish ...

Voters in Nicaragua head to the polls on Sunday to pick a new president. The country's leader, Daniel Ortega, is on the ballot for a fourth consecutive term, and many are calling the election a sham.