Inside, instead of blue-and-white Nicaraguan flags, ... Reporters Without Borders considers Nicaragua one of the most hostile countries in the world for journalists.

After Sheynnis Palacios won the Miss Universe title, her country’s government arrested the family members of the Miss Nicaragua contest director, and she hasn’t returned home since.

But Nicaragua was the first country where I couldn't show up to a public space with a microphone. ... How they made a white flag out of rags and how they held my older sister in their arms, ...

The government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has released 222 political prisoners and put them on a flight to Washington, D.C., officials in both countries said Thursday. At Washington's ...

To the editor: I got chills reading Gustavo Arellano’s column explaining why immigrant-rights protesters wave the flag of Mexico or other foreign countries. I spent 31 of the best years of my ...

Nicaragua is striving to overcome the after-effects of dictatorship, civil war and natural calamities, which have left it one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Under the ...

Miss Nicaragua, Sheynnis Palacios, smiles after being crowned Miss Universe at the 72nd Miss Universe Beauty Pageant in San Salvador, El Salvador, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. Credit: AP/Moises Castillo ...

Inside, instead of blue-and-white Nicaraguan flags, ... But Nicaragua was the first country where I couldn't show up to a public space with a microphone. Even in Cuba, ...

As the country celebrated the 44th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution, almost everyone who went to public events flew the Sandinista flag. In order not to raise suspicions, I did the same.

Nicaragua's Miss Universe title win exposes deep political divide in the Central American country ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua’s increasingly isolated and repressive government thought it had scored a rare public relations victory last week when Miss Nicaragua Sheynnis Palacios won the ...

Nicaragua's Miss Universe title win exposes deep political divide in the Central American country. November 25, 2023 at 5:14 p.m. by GABRIELA SELSER / Associated Press ...