Since taking office in 2007, Daniel Ortega has funneled more than $4 billion in Venezuelan petro-dollars through 'Albanisa', a spider's web of companies controlled by the Sandinista Front, outside ...

Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into national politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ruling Sandinista party in presidential elections ...

One Nicaraguan journalist escaped a crackdown on press freedom to seek asylum in the U.S. Now she feels hunted again, as ...

Ortega has turned his brutal crackdown against critics into a form of interstate violence that also targets Nicaragua’s ...

A retired Nicaraguan army officer in exile who fiercely criticized authoritarian President Daniel Ortega was shot dead ...

MÉRIDA, Venezuela- José Betancourt, 75, climbed to the glacier of Pico Bolívar, Venezuela’s highest peak, 158 times before it ...

Venezuela has swiftly signed new oil agreements with Chinese and other foreign firms to replace departing U.S. service providers following the expiration of sanctions waivers.

Violeta Chamorro, who brought peace to Nicaragua after years of war and was the first woman elected president in the Americas, died Saturday at the age of 95, her family ...

Nicaragua reduced the national highway speed limit from 100 km/h to 50 km/h, a measure widely mocked on social media as “ridiculous,” with users joking about going back to “ ox carts. ” The order was ...

In 1990, she stunned the country by winning the presidency -- and beating Ortega -- as leader of a coalition of 14 parties. During the campaign, she was known for wearing white and had to use a ...