(posted May 6, 8:30 a.m.)- Nicaragua’s de facto electoral chief Roberto Rivas announced that 18 political—three regional parties and 15 national parties—have signed up to participate in next November’s municipal elections. Rivas, who has remained in his post for more...

(posted April 26, 4:50 p.m.)- Electoral watchdog group Ethics and Transparency, the Nicaraguan affiliate of Transparency International, released a statement this afternoon excoriating as “deplorable” the government’s decision to convoke municipal elections next November while “ignoring the most serious problems...

(April 26, 2:30 p.m.)- In an act of coordinated political theater, internationally questioned electoral boss Roberto Rivas, who has been widely denounced for his controversial handling of the past three elections, has convoked municipal elections for Nov. 4. Rivas, whose...

(April 16, 4:50 p.m.)- Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim, a former director of the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization, was selected today as the 12th president of the World Bank. The World Bank’s Executive Directors elected...

Former presidential candidate Fabio Gadea says the EU Election Observation Mission’s report released last week confirms his political alliance’s decision to reject the 2011 general election results as “fraudulent.” Gadea said in a press conference today that the EU mission’s...

The sullied electoral process that led to President Daniel Ortega’s controversial reelection last November was tainted from soup to nuts, according to the final report by the EU’s Election Observation Mission. “The Nov. 6 elections constituted a deterioration in the...

(posted Feb. 22, 10:30 a.m.)- The Sandinista-dominated Supreme Electoral Council’s lack of neutrality and the “deterioration of transparency” in the electoral process left a lot to be desired in Nicaragua’s electoral democracy, according to the EU’s election mission’s report presented...

(posted Feb. 9, 6:30 p.m.)- Sandinista government officials are downplaying reports in the Finnish press that Finland is preparing to pull its $13 million in per annum aid to Nicaragua over concerns about the country’s commitment to democracy and human...

(posted Feb. 8, 2:30 p.m.) -On the occasion of the three-month anniversary of President Daniel Ortega’s reelection, a dozen civil society organizations released a joint-statement this week denouncing the “electoral fraud” of Nov. 6 and demanding an electoral do-over. The...

  Analysis. Florida Republicans’ two-month hurry-up offense against Sandinista President Daniel Ortega finally appears to be moving the chains against Nicaragua. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton last week echoed Republican concerns about Ortega by calling Nicaragua’s elections a...