Nicaragua faces a widespread and intensifying political crackdown under President Daniel Ortega, as international ...

Nicaraguan opposition media almost instantaneously blamed the Samcam murder on the Sandinista government, with prominent spokesperson Felix Maradiaga calling it a “political assassination.” The claim ...

UN experts warn the murder of exiled Nicaraguan officer Roberto Samcam in Costa Rica may be part of a pattern of repression ...

I grew up watching democracy in Nicaragua slowly disintegrate, one small step after another. Now here, in the land of the ...

HAVANA, July 17. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Nicaragua’s co-presidents, Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo on the 46th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution.

After a Nicaraguan human rights activist who had fled to Costa Rica was killed, concern has grown that the Ortega government may be targeting its enemies abroad.

Roberto Samcam was killed after an assailant disguised as a delivery driver arrived at his condo, according to his wife.

A retired Nicaraguan army officer in exile who fiercely criticized authoritarian President Daniel Ortega was shot dead Thursday in neighboring Costa Rica, his family and officials said.

With hundreds of the country’s reporters in exile, the press is under pressure like never before. But this outlet is ...

Daniel Ortega led a leftist revolution against dictatorship in the 1970s. Decades later, he has become the very thing he once opposed. With his wife by his side, he’s created a dynastic regime marked ...

A retired Nicaraguan military officer turned outspoken critic of President Daniel Ortega has been shot to death at his home in Costa Rica. Roberto Samcam, 67, had been living in exile since July ...