Analysis. For the first time in Nicaragua’s modern democratic history, the country will watch on Jan. 10 as an incumbent president hands himself the presidential sash for another term in office. The opposition claims Daniel Ortega’s reelection has ruptured Nicaragua’s...

Analysis. The advent of the New Year is usually a time to look ahead and plan new beginnings. But for many Nicaraguans, 2012 may feel like a glimpse into the past and a repeat of old beginnings. Nicaragua is trying...

(posted Dec. 16, 1:20 p.m.) - Antonio López-Istúriz, secretary general of the European People’s Party (EPP), issued a joint statement this week with U.S. Congressmen Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) denouncing Nicaragua’s Nov. 6 elections and calling on both the U.S. and...

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—With furled flags tucked under their arms and folded poster board signs held over their heads to fend off the afternoon sun, hundreds of somber-faced Nicaraguans walked quietly up the sidewalks and side streets of Managua, making their way home...

(posted Dec. 2, 1:08 p.m.) - Amid calls for peace and concerns of violence, civil society and opposition political organizations will attempt to mobilize some 80,000 people to march on Managua tomorrow in protest of election fraud and call for...

Opinion. Washington’s recently renewed interest in Nicaragua’s troubled democracy has revealed two insights into U.S. Congress: 1) Daniel Ortega, who used to draw sympathy from left-leaning Democrats, now has no friends on Capitol Hill; and 2) With the exception of...

(posted Dec. 1, 12:39 p.m.) - U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) today introduced a bipartisan resolution “In support of the democratic aspirations of the Nicaraguan people and calling attention to the continuing deterioration of constitutional order...

Analysis. President Daniel Ortega appears to be doing something that no politician in Washington has been able to pull off in years: get Republicans and Democrats to finally agree on something. Unfortunately for the Sandinista strongman, the point of concurrence...

(posted Nov. 24, 11:45 a.m.) - Former presidential candidate Fabio Gadea’s opposition leadership will be put to test Dec. 3 in a nationwide march in Managua against election fraud. Gadea’s political movement is mobilizing 1,800 buses in an effort to...