After 'London Calling', The Clash were burdened with artistic expectancy. But as all good artists do, they pivoted and went against the grain.

After a Nicaraguan human rights activist who had fled to Costa Rica was killed, concern has grown that the Ortega government ...

Violeta Chamorro, who was thrust into national politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ruling Sandinista party, has died.

Ernesto Cardenal’s poetry is so deeply engaged with the historical, political, and spiritual landscape of his life that biography and bibliography seem almost arbitrary distinctions.Priest, social ...

Nicaragua’s strongman President Daniel Ortega has offered to send “Sandinista fighters” to Venezuela in support of his embattled fellow authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro, in case there is ...

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 known as the Western Hemisphere's newest dictatorship.

And when moderate members of the Sandinista government left or were forced out with the Marxist turn of the Sandinista junta, Pastora left with them. Pastora laid low for about a year before declaring ...

1961 - Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) founded. 1978 - Assassination of opposition leader Pedro Joaquin Chamorro triggers general strike and unites moderates and the Sandinista ...

A stop motion doc-feature, the film will narrate how the Sandinista-Contra War of 1982-1989 in Nicaragua forced Félix, a 17-year-old revolutionary, to become an adult in the battlefield, ...

A member of a prominent Nicaraguan political family, Jarquín gained access to key political actors, including Sandinista commanders. The result is an authoritative, deeply documented account of a ...

1961 - Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) founded. 1978 - Assassination of opposition leader Pedro Joaquin Chamorro triggers general strike and unites moderates and the Sandinista ...