Attempts to file an impeachment complaint against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. are “cheap and desperate publicity stunts,” ...

Ortega first came to power in 1979 after his Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) ousted the dictator Anastasio Somoza. He was elected president in 1984 and served until 1990.

Former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli left the Nicaraguan embassy in Panama City, where he had sought refuge more ...

Nicaragua’s government, led by President Daniel Ortega and his wife and co-President, Rosario Murillo, has been cracking down on dissent since it violently repressed protests in 2018 ...

Nicaragua has withdrawn from the U.N. cultural and educational body UNESCO because it awarded a prize celebrating press ...

“Under President Trump, we have arrested over 150,000 ... Security Secretary Kristi Noem told the outlet. On Feb. 28, Ortega-Lopez, 23, was apprehended during an ICE raid at the judge’s ...

UN experts say Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, who serves as Nicaragua's co-president after a recent constitutional reform, have built a centralized and repressive regime that has co-opted ...

Nicaragua’s government, led by President Daniel Ortega and his wife and co-President, Rosario Murillo, has been cracking down on dissent since it violently repressed protests in 2018 ...