Is Nicaragua winning the war on drugs?

GRANADA—Nietzsche said, “Out of chaos comes order.” Nietzsche, however, never tried to have a quiet dinner with friends on a Saturday evening on Granada’s Calle La Calzada, where out of chaos comes more chaos—usually in the form of manically loud...

SÉBACO, Matagalpa—Twenty-two years after handing in their guns and retiring from the Sandinista Popular Army (EPS), thousands of former revolutionary combatants—many now in their 50s—are mobilizing once again in a peaceful yet forceful campaign to demand their rights to pensions,...

MANAGUA—Women from all corners of Nicaragua descended on Managua Thursday to celebrate International Women’s Day. Accompanied by the drums of the feminist group Batacuda Feminista and decked out in bright purple and white, the women chanted and marched through the...

The continuous wave of land invasions and outside encroachment into indigenous communal lands by non-indigenous Nicaraguans has sparked a Miskito uprising in one rural community and wider fears of growing racial tensions in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN). “This...

In response to recent calls for legalization of narcotics in Central America, the U.S. government says there can be no truce in the war on drugs. The U.S. State Department’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Kevin Whitaker, told...