I was 13 years old the day I got braces on my teeth and the United States bombed Baghdad, launching the “first” Iraq war. “Today, Wednesday the 16th of January 1991, we had just gotten out of the ...

Costa Rica famously does not have a military. But in a border tiff that has escalated into a public-relations war, it seems to be getting the better of its neighbor Nicaragua. The point of contention ...

At the end of Nicaragua's civil war, Juan Gregorio Rodriguez traded his life as a Contra rebel for that of auto mechanic in Florida. He kept in touch with other rebels and supported their political ...

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Last year, in the dead of night under a dark August sky, police agents, with orders from Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega, raided the home of Bishop Rolando Jose Alvarez Lagos. Bishop Alvarez and ...

These are the days of goodbye parties for journalists in Nicaragua. Cessation of U.S. military funding for the contra rebels have left things strangely quiet; the slow grind of reconstruction has ...

LEÓN, Nicaragua – On Aug. 20, a caravan of six vehicles crossed the Honduras border into Nicaragua. The vans were adorned with the logo of Televisa, the world’s largest Spanish-language television ...

MANAGUA (Reuters) - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, angry because the United States is rethinking an aid program, pressed Washington on Monday for billions of dollars in war reparations dating ...

Support journalism that digs deeper into topics that matter most to ArkLaTex. Donate today to preserve the quality and integrity of local journalism. Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who rose to the ...

On Aug. 7, 1987, five Central American presidents signed a peace accord known as Esquipulas II, named after the city in Guatemala where the first round of meetings had taken place the previous year.

The government is resettling thousands of peasants–some against their will–from southeastern Nicaragua, where fighting between the Sandinista army and contra rebels has increased dramatically. The ...