Violeta Chamorro’s daughter, Cristiana Chamorro, was held under house arrest for months in Nicaragua and then convicted of money laundering and other charges as Ortega moved to ...

Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into politics by her husband’s assassination and became president of Nicaragua, has died at 95, her family said.

Violeta Chamorro, who was thrust into national politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ...

The country’s first female president, known as Doña Violeta to both supporters and detractors, she presided over the Central American nation’s uneasy transition to peace after nearly a decade ...

By 1990 Nicaragua was in tatters. The economy was in shambles thanks to a U.S. trade embargo, Sandinista mismanagement and war. Some 30,000 people had died in the fighting between the Contras and ...

To date, Libya, Mexico, “Palestine,” Spain, Turkey, Chile, the Maldives, Bolivia, Cuba, Ireland and Belize have initiated proceedings to intervene in the case under Articles 62 and 63.

Nicaragua’s Foreign Minister, Valdrack Jaentschke, has accused Costa Rica of adopting a “colonialist and usurping attitude” within the Central American Integration System (), escalating tensions ...

Former Nicaraguan political prisoners Victor Manuel Sosa Herrera, left, and Armando Robles Alaniz, right, in February 2023 raise their country’s flag to protest the authoritarian regime.

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 ...

The Nicaraguan government strengthened President Daniel Ortega's hold on power on Thursday when it amended the constitution to give Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, "absolute power". The ...

Nicaragua's 2025 constitutional reform establishes co-presidency, ... defined as a “revolutionary” and “socialist” state and includes among national symbols the red-and-black FSLN flag, ... deep ...

It also will include as a national symbol the red-and-black flag of the FSLN — a guerrilla group-turned-political party that overthrew US-backed dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979.