Nicaragua’s political polarization has widened under the self-proclaimed “Government of Reconciliation and National Unity,” according to a forthcoming study entitled “Political Culture and Democracy in Nicaragua 2012.” The study, which will be released next month, demonstrates a growing divide between...

(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...

(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...

The Sandinista Front (FSLN) padded the results in the Nov. 6 general elections by at least 150,000 ballots, stealing 8 to 12 additional seats in congress to get their legislative super majority, according to the final report released today by...

Insisting there is no legal recourse available in Nicaragua, the opposition Independent Liberal Party (PLI) and civil society group Hagamos Democracia are taking their allegations of election fraud before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, D.C. The two...