Nicaragua's legislation is among the most progressive in Latin America – and among the least enforced. 90 per cent of the country’s Indigenous areas are threatened with invasion by armed settlers.

The Nicaraguan regime of President Daniel Ortega has sentenced seven opposition leaders to serve time in prison in a new episode of the repression saga the Central American country is going through.

Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, steadfast Nicaraguan church leader, gave his first interview since being exiled to the Vatican in January 2024, and it came amid another cancellation of the legal ...

A Panamanian judge ruled there was enough evidence to move ahead with the trial of former Nicaraguan president Arnoldo Aleman and issued an arrest order for the accused on charges of money laundering.

El Salvador’s first leftist president, Mauricio Funes, died yesterday aged 65 in Nicaragua, where he fled in 2016 after being accused of corruption in his country, the Nicaraguan government said.

Nicaragua has experienced a boom in gold mining over the last few years, with concessions covering millions of hectares of land — often near protected areas and on Indigenous territory.

By Maxwell Radwin Gold mining has exploded in Nicaragua over the past few years, bringing in billions of dollars and becoming ...

LUIS ROMERO / AP El Salvador's first leftist president, Mauricio Funes, died Tuesday, January 21, aged 65 in Nicaragua, where he fled in 2016 after being accused of corruption in his country ...