Gay activist pockets list of closeted lawmakers

Nicaraguan politics has always been a bare-knuckle, anything-goes affair. But gay-rights activist Marvin Mayorga is about to deliver a political punch that some consider a “low blow” even by Nicaraguan standards. In an effort to pressure—or perhaps embarrass—Nicaraguan lawmakers who...

JINOTEGA—At the end of a steep switchback footpath that twists through the darkened jungle covering the mountains of San José de Bocay, Tim Takaro, a Canadian doctor and former internationalist who worked in Jinotega’s warzone health clinic in the 1980s,...

SAN ANDRES, Colombia— With chants of “For our sovereignty” and “For the defense of the environment,” a group of more than 600 residents of San Andres and several Colombian politicians from the mainland marched through the breezy streets of this...

After 18 months of watching her brother atrophy physically and mentally in a Nicaraguan jail cell for crimes she claims he didn’t commit, Janis Puracal, the younger sister and legal representative of incarcerated Seattle native Jason Puracal, is pulling out...

Amid calls for an alternative drug-control policy for Central America, President Daniel Ortega insists Nicaragua can’t afford to give up the fight because it’s winning the war on drugs. “Nicaragua, with the people, the army and the police, is fighting...