Violeta Chamorro, who was thrust into national politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ...

A new policy brief released by Open Doors has exposed as a systematic campaign of repression against Christian communities in ...

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, an unlikely leader whose rise was fueled by her husband's murder, championed regional ...

A retired Nicaraguan military officer turned outspoken critic of President Daniel Ortega has been shot to death at his home ...

Roberto Samcam was killed after an assailant disguised as a delivery driver arrived at his condo, according to his wife.

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ruling Sandinista party in ...

A retired Nicaraguan military officer turned outspoken critic of President Daniel Ortega was shot to death Thursday at his ...

His death rallied the public to a revolution by Ortega and the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), which forced Somoza into exile in 1979 — he was assassinated in Paraguay the next year ...

The killing, widely believed to have been ordered by Somoza, galvanized the opposition and fueled the popular revolt led by Ortega’s Sandinista National Liberation Front that toppled the ...

After the Sandinista Revolution of 1979, her rejection of the dictatorship led her to participate in the first Government Junta of National Reconstruction, where she met the then—and still ...

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 ...