Nicaragua

The strongest storms ever to form so late, and so far south, in the Caribbean could force us to revise our expectations about hurricanes in this part of the world.

The strongest storms ever to form so late, and so far south, in the Caribbean could force us to revise our expectations about hurricanes in this part of the world.

Hurricanes Eta and Iota brought epic flooding and mudslides across the isthmus — making U.S. air power all the more important to rescue and relief.

Hurricane Iota will hit Nicaragua and Honduras Monday night as a Category 5 storm — raising the specter of catastrophic Hurricane Mitch two decades ago.

COMMENTARYWhen Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro confirmed this week he’d tested positive for COVID-19 – hardly stunning news given his reckless…

COMMENTARYTuesday night the Trump Administration made the surprising if not stunning announcement that, for the first time ever, the U.S. is nominating an…

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Nicaragua has reported just 25 cases of COVID-19 and only eight deaths. But Nicaraguan doctors there and in South Florida are speaking up with a much more…

Until this month, it looked like Latin America and the Caribbean might be spared the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Then the world saw the tragic images…

COMMENTARY On the opening page of his guerrilla memoir "Fire from the Mountain," Nicaraguan revolutionary Omar Cabezas calls his birthplace "a ghost town”…

Latin America and the Caribbean have so far avoided the scarier level of COVID-19 infection seen in Europe, Asia and the U.S. But the region’s numbers are…

The Trump Administration’s year-long efforts to dislodge authoritarian regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba have so far failed. That’s raised…