Nicaraguan authorities swore in more than 1,400 masked civilians to form part of a new "volunteer" police force on Friday, ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Thursday condemned Nicaragua for allowing President Daniel Ortega's re-election in 2011, despite a constitutional ban due to term limits.

According to a Nicaraguan news outlet, at the time of the confiscation there were at least 30 students in formation at the St ...

Nicaragua has become one of the 20 most dangerous countries in the world for Christians, according to the International ...

Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal ...

A group of some 50 Nicaraguans released from prison by the government of Daniel Ortega in 2024 are stranded in Guatemala, following the decision of the United States to reject their request for asylum ...

His last sentence came just last year in June. He was sentenced to eight years in prison for receiving an airplane as a ...

"As is the case in many communist countries, Nicaragua has come to view religion as an enemy of the state," the ICC notes in its report. "[President Daniel] Ortega has led the country's new ...

More than 4,000 people have been inducted into the force over just three days this week across the Central American nation, ...

Independent journalists face exile, arrest and disappearances under government led by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.