Murillo wants Nicaragua to clean up its act

They say that all Nicaraguans are poets or hijuepoetas. That dictum, which works better in Spanish than Spanglish, is never truer than in the month February, when Granada hosts its international poetry festival and even the most prosaic Nicaraguans start...

The results of inadequate spending on public education were again lay bare this week when a jaw-dropping 94% of recent Nicaraguan high school graduates failed the basic entrance exam for the National University of Engineering (UNI). According to the UNI’s...

This year’s arrest, trial and conviction of two Belgian men who own and operated Granada’s first gay hotel and condominium community has apparently prompted some members of the gay community to boycott Nicaragua tourism, according to industry sources. Supporters of...

Nicaragua’s public education system—already the most underfunded and underperforming in Central America—will maintain its worst-in-class performance record in 2013, thanks to another paltry budget designation by the National Assembly, critics say. The ruling Sandinista Front doesn’t see it that way....

Nicaraguan fishing boat captains on the Caribbean Sea say they are “fishing with fear” among Colombian warships that continue to ply Nicaragua’s recently recovered waters beyond the 82nd meridian. But they insist they are doing their patriotic duty to exert...