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.

The United States wants to punish the Ortega-Murillo regime for engaging in "repressive and persistent" attacks on the rule of law, but using CAFTA-DR as a route may be complicated.

At a swearing-in ceremony on Friday in the small northern city of Ocotal, national police chief Francisco Diaz described the new force as one that will support existing police officers, and is voluntarily formed by civilians who will "defend peace and security."

The Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez Lagos of Matagalpa said his “main pastoral priority” was closeness to his priests, in his first public interview since

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

Nicaragua's regime has reportedly greenlighted the entry of Russian forces into the Central American country, according to a Russian state TV broadcast. “It is time for Russia to deploy ...

On Monday, the United Nations Human Rights Committee issued historic decisions finding that Ecuador and Nicaragua violated the human rights of three girls who survived sexual violence—Norma, Susana, and Lucía—who were then denied access to abortion and forced into motherhood.

The Trump administration is giving ICE officers the power to quickly deport migrants who were allowed into the country temporarily under Biden-era programs, according to a memo.

El Salvador's former president, Mauricio Funes, who came into politics after a career as a whistleblowing journalist, died Tuesday night in Nicaragua at the age of 65.

A group of some 50 Nicaraguans released from prison by the government of Daniel Ortega in 2024 are stranded in Guatemala, following the decision of the United States to reject their request for asylum.

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