Nearly 96,000 Nicaraguans who arrived in the US under humanitarian parole, along with another 4,000 protected by TPS, live in ...

It’s been six months since Rosario Murillo became Nicaragua’s co-president, but it’s nothing worth celebrating. In fact, it’s a major step backward for Nicaraguan women.

Arce and Daniel Ortega were close comrades during the 1979 Sandinista revolution that toppled United States-backed dictator ...

Thousands of dissidents have fled Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua — and now, even those of us in exile no longer feel safe.

Nicaraguan authorities have arrested a Protestant pastor and several of his relatives and associates in a police operation ...

Nicaragua’s upcoming election on November 7 is expected to hold no surprises, after strongman president Daniel Ortega spent most of the year tightening his grip on the country. With seven ...

Ortega’s authoritarian rule became more repressive last year when it became clear that he would likely lose in the general election to more popular candidates. To stay in power, he jailed all ...

Mystery surrounding the absence of Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega continues to grow, with the leader having not been seen in public for the last 40 days. Ortega, 74, has not been seen in ...

Unless Daniel Ortega and that woman die, nothing will change. There is no life here.” Previous reporting contributed by CNN’s Flora Charner, Taylor Barnes, Claudia Rebaza, and Matt Rivers.

How we got here Born on November 11, 1945, the son of a shoe maker, Mr Ortega grew up in a mining village and went on to study law, but dropped out to join the guerrillas fighting the US-backed ...

1980: FSLN government led by Daniel Ortega nationalizes lands held by the Somoza family. 1982: US-sponsored attacks by Honduras-based contra rebels begin; state of emergency declared.