Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Latin America’s first elected female president whose stunning victory at the polls in 1990 helped bring an end to eight years of a civil war in Nicaragua that ...

MANAGUA, NICARAGUA — On the rim of a volcano with a clear view of the U.S. Embassy, landscapers are applying the final touches to a mysterious new Russian compound. Behind the concrete walls and ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- When the U.S. ambassador here said of a presidential candidate that "if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and swims like a duck, it probably is a duck," he ruffled a ...

Russia donated a satellite station to Nicaragua as the two nations have increasingly sought closer military ties.

Looking back: How an ABC News correspondent’s murder shaped Cold War history in Nicaragua It all began the day a Nicaraguan soldier shot Bill Stewart to death.

Daniel Ortega, the former Marxist rebel who confronted Washington when he first ruled Nicaragua in the 1980s, is again forging links with former Cold War allies as his second presidency runs into ...

Mayor and ‘Foreign Minister’: How Bernie Sanders Brought the Cold War to Burlington Referendums, rallies, a trip to Nicaragua — all were part of his effort to infuse left-wing activism into ...

The saga of Nicaragua-Taiwan relations – and their eventual end in December 2021 – stretches back to the Cold War heyday of Taipei’s anti-communist obsession.

Mark Kramer is director of Cold War Studies and a senior fellow at Harvard University's Davis Center. More than 20 years since the U.S.S.R. disappeared, Russia's incursion into Ukraine is renewing ...

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's plan to created neighborhood watch committees has some ex-Contra rebels warning that civil war might again be a possibility.

Violeta Chamorro, Who Led Nicaragua’s End to Cold-War Era Civil War, Dies at 95 Latin America’s first elected female president won a surprise victory over Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega and ...