(posted March 13, 11:30 a.m.)- Electoral watchdog group Ethics and Transparency yesterday denounced the State of Nicaragua before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (ICHR) for abusing its power by politicizing the issuance of national identification cards, or cédulas. Ethics...

An overwhelming majority of Nicaraguans want democracy for their country and most voters think it’s time to replace the de facto electoral magistrates in the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE), according to a new M&R Consultants poll published today in daily...

A little more than two weeks ago, elections took place in Nicaragua in which the Sandinista Front for National Liberation won an unprecedented 62.46 percent of the national vote. Throughout the past year, Cid-Gallup, the Gallup institutional affiliate in Central...

MANAGUA— When the shouting is over and the dust settles after tomorrow’s elections, the ballots cast by independent voters will determine who will be Nicaragua’s next president and who will control the National Assembly. Since 1990, independent voters have played...

The Nicaraguan Navy and Coast Guard yesterday helped the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) transport 1,080 “electoral packages” to 230 voting centers in rural municipalities along 1,494 miles of Caribbean coastline. The navy deployed 688 soldiers and 30 naval vessels—Coast Guard...

MANAGUA—Election season in Nicaragua is usually cause for celebration, citizen participation and fits of partisan paroxysms. This year, however, the mood is different. Repeated allegations of irregularities, institutional failings and illegal maneuverings by the ruling party have cast a pall...

The president of the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) denies the electoral body is issuing cédulas to Honduran citizens and warns that disturbances will not be permitted on election day. “We are not going to allow this to continue; I want...

The Sandinista Front has given Nicaraguan cédulas (state ID cards) to hundreds of Hondurans in attempt to win votes in the municipality of Santa María, Nueva Segovia, near the Honduran border, according to allegations made yesterday by the Independent Liberal...

The Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) announced today that all the ballots for the Nov. 6 general elections have been printed and are now being packed for delivery to 12,960 voting stations across the country. “We are ready, logistically speaking, for...