There are two competing narratives underlying stories about Nicaragua's elections. For Nicaragua's government and allies, Daniel Ortega's recent electoral victory has consolidated the narrative of ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — A day after questioned elections, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s government on Monday set about painting as a historic democratic victory what many of the world’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...