The new Constitution tailored by the presidential couple legitimizes the ‘volunteer police’ and gives the Sandinista flag ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Thursday condemned Nicaragua for allowing President Daniel Ortega's re-election in 2011, despite a constitutional ban due to term limits.

With Donald Trump threatening to “take back” the Panama Canal from China, Nicaragua has changed its constitution to let the ...

The official government newspaper La Gaceta announced on Jan. 8 the “voluntary dissolution” of 11 of these organizations, ...

According to a Nicaraguan news outlet, at the time of the confiscation there were at least 30 students in formation at the St ...

Independent journalists face exile, arrest and disappearances under government led by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.

In a continued assault on civil society and religious freedom, Nicaragua's government dissolved multiple nonprofit ...

More than 4,000 people have been inducted into the force over just three days this week across the Central American nation, ...

Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal ...

Ten of the country’s 15 regions lack any type of journalists, who have been expelled, persecuted, or detained by the Ortega ...

His last sentence came just last year in June. He was sentenced to eight years in prison for receiving an airplane as a ...

A worsening crackdown on independent media by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government saw 46 journalists forced into ...