Nicaragua

Nicaraguan strongman Daniel Ortega has thrown more than 20 presidential candidates and opposition leaders in jail this summer. What should the U.S. and world do?

Authoritarian Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has rounded up more than a dozen opposition figures this month, prompting new U.S. legislation to pressure him.

COMMENTARY After arresting seven opposition leaders, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega confirms comparison with the thug dictator he once overthrew.

Federal prosecutors are requesting that Cristiana Chamorro be disqualified from running for president due to accusations that she was involved in money laundering.

Impoverished Nicaragua barely has a highway system — yet it approved a space program this week. Critics call it an absurd, but familiar, Daniel Ortega distraction.

COMMENTARY The pro-democracy credibility of Rick Scott, Mario Diaz-Balart and Carlos Gimenez is as shattered now as glass inside the U.S. Capitol.

Nicaragua's regime-run legislature ends its session this week after passing laws that critics say bury human and political rights in advance of next year's election.

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.

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