Nicaragua faces a widespread and intensifying political crackdown under President Daniel Ortega, as international ...

Daniel Ortega led a leftist revolution against dictatorship in the 1970s. Decades later, he has become the very thing he once opposed. With his wife by his side, he’s created a dynastic regime marked ...

Nicaraguan opposition media almost instantaneously blamed the Samcam murder on the Sandinista government, with prominent spokesperson Felix Maradiaga calling it a “political assassination.” The claim ...

Nicaragua's government has for years clamped down on dissent, imprisoning opponents of President Daniel Ortega and shutting down civil society organizations.

The 79-year-old Ortega has ruled Nicaragua for 28 years, having first come to power in 1979 following the fall of dictator Anastasio Somoza. He was voted out of office in 1990 but returned as head ...

Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega is proposing a constitutional reform that would officially make him and his wife, current Vice President Rosario Murillo, “copresidents” of the Central ...

Nicaragua's Congress approved a constitutional reform on Thursday that would make President Daniel Ortega and his wife, current Vice President Rosario Murillo, “copresidents” of the Central ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaraguan guerrilla fighter Humberto Ortega, a Sandinista defense minister who later in life became a critic of his older brother President Daniel Ortega, died Monday at 77… ...

Associated Press. MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega is proposing a constitutional reform that would officially make him and his wife, current Vice President Rosario ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua's Congress approved a constitutional reform on Thursday that would make President Daniel Ortega and his wife, current Vice President Rosario Murillo… ...

Nicaragua’s Congress has approved a constitutional reform that would make President Daniel Ortega and his wife “co-presidents” of the Central American nation.

FILE – In this Sept. 5, 2018 file photo, Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, lead a rally in Managua, Nicaragua.