The new Constitution tailored by the presidential couple legitimizes the ‘volunteer police’ and gives the Sandinista flag ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Thursday condemned Nicaragua for allowing President Daniel Ortega's re-election in 2011, despite a constitutional ban due to term limits.

With Donald Trump threatening to “take back” the Panama Canal from China, Nicaragua has changed its constitution to let the ...

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

At a swearing-in ceremony on Friday in the small northern city of Ocotal, national police chief Francisco Diaz described the ...

According to a Nicaraguan news outlet, at the time of the confiscation there were at least 30 students in formation at the St ...

Independent journalists face exile, arrest and disappearances under government led by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.

Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal ...

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

The Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez Lagos of Matagalpa said his “main pastoral priority” was closeness to his priests, in ...

Ten of the country’s 15 regions lack any type of journalists, who have been expelled, persecuted, or detained by the Ortega ...

A worsening crackdown on independent media by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government saw 46 journalists forced into ...