On January 30, 2025, the National Assembly of Nicaragua approved a constitutional reform that significantly strengthens the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“The action by the Court of Appeals continues a clear path of criminalization and harassment of civil society in Nicaragua by the Ortega-Murillo regime.” Multiple human rights organizations have ...

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 ...

By Adam Nossiter Mauricio Funes, a former president of El Salvador and a one-time television journalist who fled to Nicaragua to escape ... a fresh start for his war-battered country when ...