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Daniel Ortega is still holding hundreds of political prisoners — including candidates who challenged him last year — and is still defying U.S. and E.U. sanctions.
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COMMENTARY: The Latin left's bromance with an Iranian accused of bombing a Jewish center helps U.S. conservatives' efforts to paint liberals as anti-Semitic.
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COMMENTARY On the eve of the Summit for Democracy, calling leaders like Nicolás Maduro "president" feels like complicity in their dark charade.
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Nicaragua lifted its visa requirement for Cubans, which may lead many more of them to go there and then head for the U.S. — potentially adding to the border crisis.
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President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed into law legislation that increases and coordinates U.S. sanctions on Nicaraguan officials after President Daniel Ortega held an election on Sunday that was widely considered illegitimate.
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COMMENTARY The idea of charging Jair Bolsonaro with pandemic homicide speaks to all the demagogues who've helped make the Americas COVID's killing field.
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Prosecutors ordered the arrest of Sergio Ramirez, one of the country's most distinguished writers, who is now out of the country. President Daniel Ortega is arresting opponents ahead of elections.
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Former Miss Nicaragua, and vice presidential hopeful, Berenice Quezada is the eighth Nicaraguan opposition candidate to be charged with terrorism or treason.
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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?
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Authoritarian Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has rounded up more than a dozen opposition figures this month, prompting new U.S. legislation to pressure him.
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COMMENTARY After arresting seven opposition leaders, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega confirms comparison with the thug dictator he once overthrew.
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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.