The systematic and relentless persecution orchestrated by the Ortega-Murillo regime has led to the closure, confiscation, and ...

Violeta Chamorro’s daughter, Cristiana Chamorro, was held under house arrest for months in Nicaragua and then convicted of ...

Violeta Chamorro, whose 1990 upset victory made her Nicaragua's first female president — and ushered peace into civil ...

Despite a flurry of positive reports in the travel press, U.S. officials say Americans should avoid Nicaragua because it’s an ...

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the first female president of Nicaragua, died early Saturday morning in Costa Rica at the age of ...

A retired Nicaraguan army officer in exile who fiercely criticized authoritarian President Daniel Ortega was shot dead ...

In a powerful demonstration of international solidarity, seven U.S. veterans visited Nicaragua in mid-March as part of an ...

The first woman to lead a Central American country, she served in the 1990s after the nation had been shaken by political ...

The Department of Homeland Security is notifying hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans that ...

A quick, three-hour flight was all it took to trade in North America’s unpredictable spring for the steady warmth of ...

That conflict made Nicaragua one of the big proxy battlegrounds of the Cold War. Chamorro put her country on the path to democracy in the difficult years following the Sandinista revolution of ...

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the Nicaraguan leader whose rule in the 1990s marked the end of the country’s civil war and who ...