Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who rose to the presidency of Nicaragua in 1990, presenting herself as a unity figure in the wake of civil war and becoming the first woman elected to govern a Central ...

As president, Chamorro managed to bring to an end a civil war that had raged for much of the 1980s as US-backed rebels known as the ‘Contras’ fought the leftist Sandinista government. That conflict ...

Nicaragua’s independent newspaper, Confidencial, now forced to operate in exile, reports that among 1,500 recently canceled civil society organizations, at least 10 served or sheltered the elderly.

Two days after he ended the truce in Nicaragua's Civil War, President Daniel Ortega has confirmed that his troops are engaged in a major offensive against the American-backed contra guerillas in ...

President Calvin Coolidge appeared to Nicaraguans last week to have assumed frankly and even conscientiously the role of Dictator in Nicaraguan affairs. The President’s personal representative ...

Nicaragua has become one of the 20 most dangerous countries in the world for Christians, according to the International Christian Concern's (ICC) Global Religious Persecution Index.The regime's ...

Nicaragua has revoked the registration of 1,500 non-profit organizations, ... Nicaragua forces 1,500 church and civil society groups to close. Story by Adam Pourahmadi and Avery Schmitz, CNN ...

Violeta Chamorro, who brought peace to Nicaragua after years of war and was the first woman elected president in the Americas, died today at the age of 95, her family said. Chamorro, who ruled the ...

Nicaragua’s independent newspaper, Confidencial, now forced to operate in exile, reports that among 1,500 recently canceled civil society organizations, at least 10 served or sheltered the elderly.

(CNN) — Nicaragua has revoked the registration of 1,500 non-profit organizations, the latest in a years-long crackdown in the small Central American nation. The organizations, which include hundreds ...

Nicaragua has revoked the registration of 1,500 non-profit organizations, the latest in a years-long crackdown in the small Central American nation.