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Nicaraguan Indigenous party says government has barred it ahead of local elections
Reuters via Yahoo News· 6 months agoNicaraguan electoral authorities barred an Indigenous party that has in the past clashed with...
Nicaragua finally shows off a dissident a year after arrest
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe wife of Nicaraguan political activist Félix Maradiaga told journalists her husband had lost more...
Nicaragua deported 222 political prisoners, but the most worrisome one stayed home | Opinion
Miami Herald via AOL· 1 year agoNicaragua’s dictator Daniel Ortega got some political oxygen after he freed 222 political prisoners,...
Nicaragua’s crackdown on the Catholic Church spreads fear
Politico via Yahoo News· 2 months agoMIAMI — Nineteen priests kicked out of the country, dozens of incidents of harassment and church...
Ex-prisoner tells diplomats Nicaragua holding families 'hostage'
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year ago(Reuters) - "I said I would hand myself in, but the police kicked down the gate," Tamara Davila, a...
Nicaragua proposes suspending Vatican ties after comments
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNicaragua ’s government said Sunday it has proposed suspending relations with the Vatican days after...
How can the U.S. condemn Nicaragua’s dictator while propping up his robust economy? | Opinion
Miami Herald via AOL· 1 year agoDaniel Ortega doesn’t mind being called a dictator, Andres Oppenheimer learned. “I’ve been called...
U.S. report cites killings, torture in Ortega's Nicaragua
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPresident Daniel Ortega's administration has been increasingly isolated internationally since his government began cracking down heavily on dissent following street protests that erupted in ...
Nicaragua seizes properties of businessman in exile
Reuters via Yahoo News· 9 months agoPiero Coen Ubilla, who heads agribusiness-to-money-transfer conglomerate Grupo Coen, said in a statement that properties registered in his and his wife's names were seized by police early Friday ...
Nicaraguan Catholic bishop back to jail after talks stall -local media
Reuters via Yahoo News· 9 months agoCiting church and diplomatic sources, Confidencial reported that the talks stalled over whether or not Alvarez would consent to leave the country, as well as over the possible release of other ...