NPR's Eyder Peralta recently visited Nicaragua for the first time in a decade, gaining rare access to a nation that is hostile to journalists and... I returned to Nicaragua, where I was born, and ...
Nicaragua's paramilitary groups are allegedly ordered to help repress protesters from the highest ranks of government Nicaragua’s military chief has denied the presence of paramilitary groups in the ...
I was 13 years old the day I got braces on my teeth and the United States bombed Baghdad, launching the “first” Iraq war. “Today, Wednesday the 16th of January 1991, we had just gotten out of the ...
Nicaragua has been locked in a turbulent political crisis since April 2018. After years of discontent with leftist president Daniel Ortega’s growing authoritarianism, peaceful anti-government protests ...
Tourists entering Nicaragua are no longer allowed to carry Bibles. The restriction, which also applies to other printed materials and electronic equipment, is part of a growing list of prohibited ...
JONESBORO -- It's been 18 months since Norchad Omier left Bluefields, Nicaragua. Naturally, the 19-year-old misses home. Family, friends and the seafood of the Caribbean coast feel distant. In ...
In a recent report by Global Witness, Latin America was again identified as one of the most dangerous regions for those protecting forests, halting mining projects, opposing big dams, and taking other ...
Nicaragua has made an impressive economic turnaround over the past 20 years, after suffering from decades of macroeconomic instability. This publication reviews Nicaragua and IDA's joint efforts to ...
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — On Father’s Day last year, Octavio Enríquez shared pizza and soda with his two children. Then he told them he was leaving. A Nicaraguan journalist known for rigorous ...
TO SHOW HOW her husband would hit her, Ana (not her real name) makes a fist with her slender fingers and swings. He began soon after their marriage when she was 16: he was bullied at work but brutish ...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — From the Honduras side of the border, I can see a small brick building. It's down a hill, nestled in between the mountains, and that's where Nicaragua begins. And as soon as I ...
A motorcyclist rides past a mural of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, left, and revolutionary hero César Augusto Sandino during general elections in Managua, Nov. 7, 2021. Ortega won a fourth ...