When the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) was voted out of power in 1990 after a decade of battling U.S.-backed contra insurgents, many of its supporters from the United States and Europe ...

Central America’s poorest country, Nicaragua, which holds a presidential election on Sunday, has been mired in political crisis for three years. Former guerrilla turned longtime leader Daniel Ortega ...

LEE SUSTAR assesses the legacy of the Nicaraguan Revolution, which took place 25 years ago this month. WASHINGTON WAS in shock on July 19, 1979. A massive popular insurrection had put radical leftists ...

Bernie Sanders’ praise of Cuba and Fidel Castro on Sunday is just the tip of the iceberg. The Democratic front-runner had a romance with the Marxist Sandinista government of Nicaragua in the 1980s and ...

Mónica Baltodano was a guerrilla commander in Nicaragua’s Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and participated in the country’s 1979 Revolution. She has a powerful presence and a gentle ...

When I submitted my dissertation in 2019, my supervisor gave me the mug that had been on her desk for years. Printed on it were the red and black silhouettes of people waving rifles, flags, and signs ...

The President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, and his wife Rosario Murillo led an artistic and political event in Managua to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution, attended by ...

Nationwide protests since 2018 have called for Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega to step down - Copyright AFP/File Inti OCON Nationwide protests since 2018 have ...

Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega may be the most divisive figure in Nicaragua’s recent history, but since his unexpected return to power in 2007, he has promised reconciliation. To that end, he has ...

Born to a wealthy Nicaraguan family, Cardenal became a prominent intellectual voice of the Nicaraguan revolution and an ardent proponent of liberation theology, a Christian movement rooted in Marxist ...