(updated May 13, 3:15 p.m.)- Nicaragua’s Center for Human Rights (CENIDH) is blasting last weekend’s deportation of Chilean photojournalist Héctor Retamal as an “authoritarian” and “illegal” act that is “in complete violation of human rights.” CENIDH lawyer Gonzalo Carrion says...

Indigenous leaders of the nine Mayangna territories inside the Bosawás Biosphere Reserve in northern Nicaragua are calling on President Daniel Ortega to declare an environmental emergency in response to the alarming rate of deforestation and destruction caused by cattle farmers,...

Editor’s note: the following is the speech that human rights activist Bianca Jagger delivered to the International Poetry Festival of Granada on Feb. 18, 2013   It is an honour to be speaking to you at the International Poetry Festival...

Three months after making a stand against the Sandinista government amid the messy aftermath of last November’s electoral debacle in Nueva Guinea, former opposition Mayor Denis Obando claims the political heat has become too intense in Nicaragua, forcing him and...

MANAGUA—William Somarriba, a neatly appointed man with a trimmed goatee that’s more white than gray, took professional pride in his job as a taxman for Nicaragua’s Revenue Agency (DGI). But he didn’t know what to expect when Sandinista President Daniel...

(posted June 12, 8:00 a.m.)- International human rights group Women’s Link Worldwide has “awarded” Nicaragua’s Supreme Court the “Public’s Bludgeon award” for its noteworthy handling of the Fatima Hernández case. “The court reduced a rape conviction on the grounds that...

(posted May 25, 1:15 p.m.)- Nicaragua will support cognitive, motor, and social development of children under age six in the country’s poorest communities with the help of a $20 million loan approved by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The program’s...

Responding to strong pressure from within the LGBT community, gay rights activist Marvin Mayorga and his coalition, the Sexual Diversity Initiative for Human Rights, decided to keep pocketed their list of closeted lawmakers. Mayorga had threatened to “out” some 20...

Nicaraguan politics has always been a bare-knuckle, anything-goes affair. But gay-rights activist Marvin Mayorga is about to deliver a political punch that some consider a “low blow” even by Nicaraguan standards. In an effort to pressure—or perhaps embarrass—Nicaraguan lawmakers who...

May Day is supposed to be a moment when the workers of the world unite. But in Nicaragua, International Workers’ Day has become another example of the partisan divide that exists between Sandinista unions that echo the official party line...