(updated April 19, 4:20 p.m.)- MANAGUA—The heads of Nicaragua’s two largest business chambers today rejected President Daniel Ortega’s support for the Argentine government’s decision to nationalize Spanish oil company YPF, and said the Sandinista leader is not speaking for the...

Editorial TOLA—The government’s recent stake to a 20-manzana lot of prime beachfront property allegedly owned by Punta Teonoste eco-hotel has been an unwelcome reminder of how Nicaragua’s long shadow from the past continues to obscure the path forward. Like a...

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 your article “Government Investigates Borderland Titles,” published Feb. 19 Nicaragua Dispatch, I want to make a couple of legal clarifications regarding the penultimate and antepenultimate paragraphs, where you write:   The law establishes a 5-km “Border Security...

(published Feb. 23, 6:40 p.m.)- TOLA—A week after sounding the alarm bells by accusing the Sandinista government of trying to confiscate 20 manzanas (34.5 acres) of their family’s land adjacent to their $2 million Eco-resort Punta Teonoste, the Bühler family...

(posted Feb. 20, 8:20 p.m.)- Rumors that President Daniel Ortega is preparing his guillotine for Tourism Minister Mario Salinas continue to swirl as the tourism minister himself ducked questions today about his future as the head of INTUR. Following a...

The Environmental Prosecutors’ Office is investigating land titles along the southern border with Costa Rica to determine what properties are in the hands of Ticos who bought land “to extract natural resources” from the Nicaraguan side of the border, according...

(posted Feb. 17, 1:20 p.m.)- The Embassy this afternoon issued a statement to The Nicaragua Dispatch saying it “remains concerned over respect for private property rights in Nicaragua.” Although there are no U.S. citizen claimants involved in the recent land...

The government’s armed takeover of a property allegedly belonging to Hotel Punta Teonoste, a luxury eco-resort on Nicaragua’s southern Pacific coast, is sending shockwaves throughout the investment community and renewing fears of Sandinista confiscations. Walter Bühler, the Swiss-born majority owner...