Two months after the death of revolutionary president Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan-propped Petrocaribe oil alliance is determined to continue growing even in the absence of its visionary and charismatic founder, who passed away to cancer on March 5. Dispelling claims...

 After sitting politely and quietly through last Friday’s dinner summit with U.S. President Barack Obama, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega flew to Venezuela on Saturday to assume a more revolutionary posture by condemning perceived U.S. aggressions against the continuation of the...

In an apparent attempt to quell concerns that the Venezuelan-propped Bolivarian Alliance for Our Americas (ALBA) will fall like a house of cards following the death of its main architect, former President Hugo Chávez, Sandinista lawmakers today passed a law...

(posted April 2, 2:20 p.m.)- Nicaragua and its leftist allies in the Bolivarian Alliance for Our Americas (ALBA) released a communiqué this afternoon expressing concern over the “dangerous escalation” in the conflict on the Korean peninsula. “A war in the...

(posted March 22, 9:25 a.m.)- President Daniel Ortega, always on the lookout for foreign meddling in other country’s political affairs, yesterday endorsed Venezuela’s presidential candidate Nicolás Maduro to give continuity to the “Bolivarian Revolution” started by former President Hugo Chávez....

The head of Nicaragua’s largest private business council (COSEP) says Nicaraguan companies that export to Venezuela are unlikely to start using the SUCRE, the virtual currency invented by ALBA countries to avoid dealing in dollars for international trade. COSEP president...

The Sandinista government today is celebrating its first commercial transaction using the “SUCRE,” an invented virtual currency that has been adopted as a legal tender for trade between the various member nations of the Bolivarian Alliance for Our Americas (ALBA)....

News Analysis. President Daniel Ortega last night followed other Latin American presidents in expressing his solidarity with ailing Venezuelan comrade Hugo Chávez, who is again fighting for his life as he undergoes is fourth cancer surgery today in Cuba. “In...

Nicaragua Dispatch News Analysis MANAGUA, Nicaragua—Once again perceiving a threat to one of its scandal-prone member nations, the Bolivarian Alliance for Our Americas (ALBA) is rounding the wagons to protect Ecuador and defend its latest cause célèbre, WikiLeaks founder and...

(posted Aug. 15, 10:40 a.m.)- Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega says the Venezuelan-led Bolivarian Alliance for our Americas (ALBA) should be a model for the United States and Europe to follow. “If the United States, if Europe, which today are submersed...