The two-month old uprising in Nicaragua against the government of President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo (Ortega’s wife} has turned into a city-by-city battle for control. Students ...

MANAUA, Nicaragua — The streets of Nicaragua’s capital were all but deserted Thursday as residents observed a national strike called by opponents of President Daniel Ortega’s embattled government a ...

Police block anti-government protesters from marching in Managua, Nicaragua, Wednesday, April 17, 2019. Police prevented the march to commemorate a year since Nicaraguan protesters took to the streets ...

The White House said Tuesday it is monitoring government-led attacks on citizen protesters in Nicaragua and the deaths of nearly 30 people who have taken to the streets to call for the resignation of ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The streets of Nicaragua’s major cities were deserted Thursday as residents heeded an opposition alliance’s call for a one-day strike to demand that President Daniel Ortega step ...

Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega speaks to supporters at Las Victorias square in Managua, Nicaragua, on Monday, April 30, 2018. A meme making the rounds on social media in Nicaragua dryly sums up ...

The Nicaraguan dictatorship led by Daniel Ortega has prohibited holding the Stations of the Cross in the streets the same week that the dictator accused the Church of being a “mafia.” Local media ...

MEXICO CITY — The director of the Miss Nicaragua pageant, Karen Celebertti, on Monday announced her retirement from the organization, nine days after the Nicaraguan police accused her of “conspiracy” ...

Reporting from MEXICO CITY — In the grainy, nighttime video, journalist Angel Gahona, clad in jeans and a blue shirt, holds up a cellphone and narrates as he approaches the facade of city hall in ...

I happened to arrive in Nicaragua’s oldest city on Sept. 14, a day before the anniversary of Central American independence. Upon checking into my hotel, La Gran Francia, a two-story building dating ...

MASAYA, Nicaragua—The streets of this largely indigenous city are strewn with rubble and mostly deserted. Bullet holes dot the colonnade of the city’s main plaza. The police station is the last ...