The Nicaraguan parliament announced that it had approved the constitutional reform granting full powers to Daniel Ortega and ...

The US is evaluating Nicaragua’s membership in a regional free-trade agreement as its authoritarian government cracks down on ...

Nicaragua's government has expelled over 30 nuns from three convents in its latest assault on detractors, and their whereabouts are unknown, a researcher and ...

Nicaraguan strongman Daniel Ortega and his wife were granted control of all state powers Thursday under a constitutional ...

Constitutional reforms proposed by Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega to further consolidate power by extending his control ...

Ortega, a 79-year-old former guerrilla who governed Nicaragua in the 1980s after the triumph of the Sandinista revolution, returned to power in 2007. Since then, his critics say, he has established a ...

The Nicaraguan government strengthened President Daniel Ortega's hold on power on Thursday when it amended the constitution ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday lashed out at authoritarian left-wing regimes in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, ...

Constitutional reforms proposed by Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega ... Ortega initially came to power in 1979 when he and fellow guerrillas overthrew a right-wing family dynasty, and for ...

The revised constitution defines Nicaragua as a "revolutionary" and socialist state and includes the red-and-black flag of the FSLN -- a guerrilla group turned political party that overthrew a US ...