Last Living Founder Of Sandinista Movement Dies
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Thousands of Sandinista militants on Tuesday bid goodbye to Tomas Borge Martinez, the last surviving founder of the guerril...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Thousands of Sandinista militants on Tuesday bid goodbye to Tomas Borge Martinez, the last surviving founder of the guerril...
Dan Kovalik | Posted 04.10.2012
For the most part, one struggles to find many in the U.S. today who still carry a torch for the Sandinistas. Since I was a young man, I have believed in the Sandinistas, and the latest news from Nicaragua has only confirmed my loyalty.
Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 03.13.2012
Though U.S. diplomats would like to make alarmist claims about Iran's footprint in Central America, the evidence is pretty thin. That won't stop hyperbolic statements from the Republicans and others, however, who still regard Nicaragua as a virtual U.S. enclave.
AP | FILADELFO ALEMAN | Posted 03.11.2012
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Daniel Ortega was sworn in Tuesday for his third 5-year term as president of Nicaragua, shrugging off opposition complaints...
Joel D. Hirst | Posted 03.07.2012
Nicaragua, historically one of the most unstable countries in a region not known for its stability, appears to have given up its fight. In a season of political activism, Nicaragua's fraudulent election has shone for its silence -- and acquiescence.
AP | Posted 01.08.2012
MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Newly re-elected President Daniel Ortega said Tuesday there won't be any dramatic changes in his new administration and that he ...
AP | FILADELFO ALEMAN | Posted 01.07.2012
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — President and one-time Sandinista revolutionary Daniel Ortega was re-elected in a landslide, according to results released ...
AP | Posted 12.06.2011
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Sony/ATV Music Publishing wants Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega to stop playing the song "Stand By Me" as part of his re...
David Harris | Posted 05.25.2011
Each of you has been a recipient of the Muammar Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights. When you had the chance to show that you learned your lesson by returning the award, you did not.
Joel D. Hirst | Posted 05.25.2011
Roughly a year ago in Nicaragua a document surfaced, entitled "Revolutionary Brotherhood -- 21st Century Socialism." This document is purported to have been authored by the FSLN following a meeting with Hugo Chavez.
Maria Conchita Alonso | Posted 05.25.2011
Media controlled. Judiciary intimidated. Dissent stymied. All that is left to challenge Chavez is an independent legislature.
Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011
It began with Jeff Probst's voice telling us: "This is Nicaragua: remote, mysterious, dangerous." He left out poverty-ridden (second-poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, barely beating out Haiti), oppressed, run by a powerful Marxist leader.
Eric Volz | Posted 05.25.2011
CBS's choice of Nicaragua for this season of Survivor is a cynical ploy that will generate misinformation about the living conditions and human rights violations perpetrated in that country.
Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011
Moves to bring the U.S. Navy to Costa Rica have sparked widespread suspicions that Washington is looking for a justification to remilitarize the Central American region.
Ed Koch | Posted 05.25.2011
I am not a big sports fan. George Steinbrenner meant little or nothing to me before I was elected Mayor New York City in 1977. Then, suddenly, he meant a lot.
Javier Corrales | Posted 05.25.2011
This week, the United States helped bring an end to a serious political crisis in Honduras. A similar crisis is now brewing in Nicaragua, but this time, the United States won't be as lucky.
miamiherald.com | By TIM ROGERS | Posted 05.25.2011
Pro-government demonstrators rocked the U.S. Embassy as opposition leaders complained the president is undermining Nicaragua's democracy in his effort...
AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The United States on Wednesday canceled more than $60 million in assistance to Nicaragua, citing concerns about democracy, rule of ...
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE: AP reports that Cuba has been readmitted without conditions. Thirty-four members of the Organization of American States gathered here Tues...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 05.25.2011
For the last decade or so, Washington has indulged Pat Buchanan as a sort of crazy political uncle. ...
Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011
Will Obama rebuild our relationship with the south on a foundation of respect for democracy? Or will it be more of the same superpower policies cloaked in collaborative and intelligent rhetoric?
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011
I don't know what to think, given the difference between what is said to the outside world and the tiresome sermon we get every day.
Bill Scheft | Posted 05.25.2011
Look, you had a nice run. Eight years. You got to see Greater Fallujah, the mountainous border region of Afghanistan, and I would guess, the Pacific Palisades. And I'm sure you had more than a few laughs with Cheney.
Marc Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011
History comes full cycle with the election of a leftist president in El Salvador. Those we branded two decades ago as "international terrorists" now democratically govern Central America.
David Paul Appell | Posted 05.25.2011
What the United States needs to do under the Obama administration is, first off, pay more attention and engage not just with Nicaragua but to Latin America in general.
AP | FILADELFO ALEMAN and MARJORIE MILLER | Posted 05.02.2012