Nicaragua

South America 09/16/20, 20:20

At the last Republican National Convention on August 24, a speaker at the event, Florida businessman Máximo Álvarez used his speech to alert Americans about progressive socialism. As Fox News points out, the Cuban-born exile is among the refugees who have ...

Business 05/23/19, 11:27

A general strike called by Nicaragua's opposition to demand the release of political prisoners is having mixed effects.Small businesses, some supermarkets and private schools were closed in the capital on Thursday. But pharmacies and gas stations were open. Traffic was ...

Business 05/22/19, 16:23

Nicaragua's finance minister warned banks Wednesday that the government will sanction those that participate in a general strike scheduled for Thursday to pressure for the freeing of political prisoners.Iván Acosta said the banking system has a responsibility to the public ...

America 05/17/19, 17:51

Seventeen people who were arrested in previous anti-government protests were wounded in a prison disturbance in which a 57-year-old Nicaraguan-American dual national was shot dead, a lawyer for several inmates said Friday. Attorney Yonarqui Martínez also said three student protest leaders ...

Business 04/24/19, 15:59

Nicaragua's leading business association says the country's economy is in "free fall" a year after anti-government protests were violently repressed by the government and its supporters.Guillermo Jacoby, an official of the Superior Council of Private Business, said Wednesday "we thought ...

America 04/17/19, 18:07

Hundreds of police prevented a march Wednesday to commemorate a year since Nicaraguan protesters took to the streets to oppose the government of President Daniel Ortega. Hours before the scheduled start, police vehicles lined a main thoroughfare in the capital where ...

U.S. 04/16/19, 15:50

Additional sanctions to be unveiled as part of maximum pressure campaign against President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas

World 04/01/19, 23:09

Back in Nicaragua, she owned her own home and made enough as an elementary substitute teacher and lawyers' assistant to eke out a stable, if not luxurious, life.Now she spends her days on the streets in and around Costa Rica's ...

Africa 03/24/19, 08:35

Pope Francis prayed on Sunday for the victims of attacks in Nigeria and Mali, and for the success of talks underway in Nicaragua aimed at solving a yearlong political crisis in the country."Let's pray for the numerous victims of the ...

America 03/21/19, 00:37

Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado has said Central America should not be satisfied until Nicaragua holds free elections and re-establishes a free press, democracy and human rights guarantees. "We should not be tranquil until those (are) re-established there," he said in ...

America 03/11/19, 11:05

Grasping the iron bars at his home, Alex Vanegas is taken back to the dark prison cells where he spent the previous four months talking to fellow inmates through holes in the walls that also let in rats, scorpions and ...

Business 02/27/19, 15:24

Representatives of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and the opposition sat down face-to-face in a restart of long-stalled talks on resolving the country's political crisis Wednesday, shortly after authorities released dozens of people arrested in last year's crackdown on anti-government protests.The ...

America 02/24/19, 11:31

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michele Bachelet warns these hard-nosed tactics are seriously undermining proposed efforts to resolve growing political and social unrest in Nicaragua

Business 02/11/19, 13:02

Nicaraguans revolted last April when the government announced it was raising payroll taxes and cutting retirement benefits to bolster a social security program hemorrhaging money.The unrest led authorities to quickly withdraw the measure, but as the protests boiled for months ...

World 01/18/19, 12:34

The two mothers walked shoulder-to-shoulder ahead of a casket in the northern Nicaraguan city of Esteli, wailing in shared grief at the killings of their sons during a wave of anti-government protests.Francisca Machado was accompanying the casket holding her 24-year-old ...

America 01/11/19, 00:00

Saul Ronaldo Atiliano was diving for lobster in the clear waters off Honduras' Caribbean coast when he felt a pressure, a pain in his body. And he knew he'd gotten the sickness that has killed or disabled so many of ...

America 01/02/19, 13:18

Speaking to reporters, the U.S. secretary of state said Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua were countries that do not share the democratic values that unite the United States and Brazil

America 12/26/18, 00:00

Saul Ronaldo Atiliano was diving for lobster in the clear waters off Honduras' Caribbean coast when he felt a pressure, a pain in his body. And he knew he'd gotten the sickness that has killed or disabled so many of ...

America 12/23/18, 00:02

In barely a week's time, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has cemented the authoritarian reputation of his government by shuttering the offices some of the few remaining resonant voices of dissent and expelling the international monitors documenting his government's alleged crimes.The ...

America 12/19/18, 21:37

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will continue its work from Washington