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Outspoken former guerrilla hero Edén “Comandante Cero” Pastora says Costa Ricans who are celebrating Nicaragua’s decision to build its inter-oceanic canal further north of the San Juan River are “ignorant” because their country only stands to lose by pushing shipping...

Nicaraguan Congressman Brooklyn Rivera, president of the National Assembly’s Commission on Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Affairs, warns that tensions between indigenous tribes and mestizo “colonists” has reached the boiling point following the recent assassination of Mayangna leader Charley Taylor. Taylor, a...

Around 4:30 p.m. on April 15, Nicaraguan special operations forces surrounded a campesino’s shack in a remote jungle area of San Rafael de la Escalera, 25 kilometers from the Wapí mountain range in the south-central Caribbean municipality of Tortuguero. Inside...

Nicaragua’s economic prospects might look slightly less certain these days following the recent death of chief benefactor Hugo Chávez, but the Sandinista government notched another year of record growth in 2012 while the getting was good. With its kooky combination...

Despite a period of steady economic expansion under the second coming of the Sandinista government, Nicaragua has not made any notable progress in the United Nation’s Human Development Index over the past six years. In the 2013 index, released by...