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

With hundreds of the country’s reporters in exile, the press is under pressure like never before. But this outlet is ...

The first woman to be elected president in the Americas, Chamorro ended the civil war between the Contras and the Sandinista government.

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

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 damning classified document has been uncovered that reveals how the CIA plans out and set off riots like the ones in Los Angeles .

Costa Rica’s OIJ probes a possible Nicaraguan hit squad after exile Roberto Samcam’s murder, raising alarms for Ortega critics’ safety.

He penned editorials denouncing the abuses of the regime of Gen. Anastasio Somoza, whose family had ruled Nicaragua for four decades, and was gunned down on a Managua street in January 1978.

U.S. warplanes struck Iran’s nuclear sites in a dramatic escalation—just the latest in a long, bloody pattern. From proxy ...

Chamorro put her country on the path to democracy in the difficult years following the Sandinista revolution of 1979, which had toppled the US-backed right-wing regime of Anastasio Somoza.

Foreign Editor David Pratt runs the rule over the assorted former CIA officers, mercenaries, financial consultants and ...