News Analysis. (posted Dec. 5, 10:00 a.m.)- The presidents of Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras met in Managua yesterday ostensibly to sign another agreement dealing with the Gulf of Fonseca, which borders the three countries on the Pacific. The agreement...

News Analysis. The work of Nicaragua’s Palestinian Solidarity Committee has taken on a sense of urgency for the Sandinista government. Following Nicaragua’s historic victory this week in its decade-long legal battle for clear boundaries and sovereignty in the Caribbean, the...

Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Samuel Santos wasted little time in his address to the UN General Assembly—three sentences and two breaths, to be exact—to get into Sandinista boilerplate about “savage capitalism” and the need for a new world order. “The current...

In commemoration of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro’s 86th birthday today, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega sent his aging tovarishch a cheerful birthday card to brighten his day. But as a man of letters himself, Castro might find the gushing and...

The full implementation of the Central American Peace Plan hatched 25 years ago this week remains a pending task in the region, according to former Guatemalan President and peace-plan signatory Vinicio Cerezo. Marginalization of youth, organized crime, gender inequality, poverty...

(posted June 25, 10:15 a.m.)- The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) this morning convoked a Special Session on Wednesday to make an appraisal of the situation in Paraguay following last week’s controversial removal of President Fernando...

Proving they have more in common than meets the eye, President Daniel Ortega and Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli—two men who supposedly represent opposite ends of the political spectrum—got chummy on Friday during the Panamanian leader’s first official visit to Nicaragua....

(posted March 6, 2:30 p.m.)- President Daniel Ortega arrived in Honduras this afternoon to participate with his Central American colleagues in a meeting with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden to discuss drug trafficking and organized crime in the region. Not...

(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...

(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...