President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and his wife, who is co-president, have been arresting longtime loyalists, in an apparent quest to ensure no one outside the family rises to power.

A Nicaraguan activist whose 15-year-old son was gunned down during a 2018 Mother's Day protest by the country's army will face a decisive asylum hearing in San Antonio next month. ALSO READ: Dispute ...

A new United Nations report reveals Nicaragua's deepening grip under co-Presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo ...

In a 36-page report presented in Geneva to the U.N. Human Rights Council, the group document how the government of Daniel Ortega and his wife, co-President Rosario Murillo, has persecuted thousands of ...

Most earthquake energy turns into heat rather than ground shaking, sometimes hot enough to melt rock in microseconds. MIT’s lab quakes reveal this hidden balance and its role in seismic risk.

Since 2022, Nicaragua has become a hub for the expansion of Russian propaganda. The government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo have bolstered the spread of the Kremlin’s narrative abroad by ...

The UN group of human rights experts on Nicaragua revealed in a new report on Tuesday that the Nicaraguan government, led by President Daniel Ortega, has intensified repression of exiled critics ...

The presidential couple completes their coup against the historic Sandinista leader Bayardo Arce, godfather of baseball in the country, who was arrested in July ...

From his exile in the United States, Nicaraguan Bishop Silvio Báez denounced what he considered the “real problem” of Latin American dictatorships: idolatry of money.

A wave of arrests and the death of jailed opposition figures has signalled a new "era of repression" in Nicaragua, observers say, as powerful co-president Rosario Murillo prepares to take power from ...

A federal judge has dismissed a claim by a Central American development bank that its former president had attempted to extort it. In a lawsuit filed last year, the Central American Bank for Economic ...