Nicaragua faces a widespread and intensifying political crackdown under President Daniel Ortega, as international ...

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

President Donald Trump’s administration announced on Monday that the temporary protected status for Nicaraguans was ending in ...

Former Sandinista Major Roberto Samcam Killed in Exile Roberto Samcam, a former Nicaraguan military officer and critic of President Ortega, was killed in Costa Rica. Pretending to be a delivery driver ...

Mr. Samcam, 66, a member of the Sandinista party, broke with the party after he retired from the military and became a blogger, political analyst and radio host.

Roberto Samcam Ruiz took security measures seriously. A retired Nicaraguan army major who had spoken out against the Sandinista government, he fled to neighboring Costa Rica after his name started ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ruling Sandinista party in ...

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who rose to the presidency of Nicaragua in 1990, presenting herself as a unity figure in the wake of civil war and becoming the first woman elected to govern a Central ...

In 1987, Moyers oozed over paintings glorifying the Marxist revolutionaries dominating Nicaragua: “The white dove of freedom soars with the Sandinista revolution, whose heroes included Jesus ...

Chamorro put her country on the path to democracy in the difficult years following the Sandinista revolution of 1979, which had toppled the US-backed right-wing regime of Anastasio Somoza.

Violeta Chamorro, who brought peace to Nicaragua after decades of war and was the first woman elected president in the Americas, died Saturday at the age of 95, her family ...