He also served a term as president during the 1980s when he was a notable Cold War antagonist of the United States during Nicaragua’s civil war. In a speech before the United Nations Security ...

The regime's crackdown on religious groups is not an isolated campaign—it mirrors a broader attack on civil liberties. "As is the case in many communist countries, Nicaragua has come to view ...

He was a popular TV journalist when elected as El Salvador’s first modern-day leftist leader in 2009, but he went into exile ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late Tuesday. He was 65.

Even Palestine and North Korea signed it. Syria, ravaged by civil war, didn't participate, while Nicaragua didn't sign the agreement because it didn't go far enough. The Latin American country's ...

Once under Spanish rule, the country gained full independence in 1838. Today, Nicaragua is struggling to overcome decades of dictatorship, civil war and natural disasters, which have left it one of ...

Nicaraguan authorities confirmed the death ... Liberation Front (FMLN), which formed during the country's 1979-1992 civil war. The FMLN was a cornerstone of Salvadoran politics for decades before ...

Nicaragua’s Health Ministry said in a statement ... the leftist party born of El Salvador’s civil war and a powerful national political force for three decades that was left with no seats ...