Our story may be an exceptional one; I certainly hope it is. Since last September, our organization, Interfaith Service to Latin America (www.isla.cc), has been attempting unsuccessfully to get a shipping container with approximately $150,000 worth of largely medical supplies...

(posted Feb. 17, 6:00 p.m.)- Canada today announced a new $8.1 million aid package ($8 million USD) for rural development and food security in Nicaragua, according to a press release from the Canadian government. The announcement was made by Canada’s...

In cold, rainy November, a battle-worn Nicaraguan activist comes to Canada. She speaks of the withdrawal of international cooperation and its human consequences. In a darkening era of austerity, she searches for signs of a rebirth of the solidarity she...

The United States, Sweden, England, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Germany and Finland have all cut aid to Nicaragua since President Daniel Ortega returned to power in 2007. Spain, however, will not be following the rest of those countries out the door,...

(posted Feb. 15, 8:00 p.m.)- Following the conga-line exit of European donors from Nicaragua, Foreign Minister Samuel Santos left today on a three-country tour of Spain, Iran and Italy in search of replacement aid and investment. Garrulous first lady Rosario...

(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...

Nicaragua yesterday received the disagreeable distinction of getting booted off Freedom House’s list of electoral democracies. Nicaragua was the only country in the world to get tossed from this year’s list of 117 democracies, which includes new recruits Niger, Thailand...

(Jan. 19, 11:15 am) - Germany has decided to cut its foreign aid to Nicaragua due to the EU’s concerns about serious irregularities in the reelection of President Daniel Ortega last November, according to German Ambassador Betina Kern in an...