For the past 40 years, Managua has been staggering about like a shell-shocked earthquake victim who is overwhelmed by devastation and haunted by the ghosts of its past. But that is starting to change. For the first time in decades,...

Nicaragua’s two largest private business chambers are lambasting a new decree by the government’s telecom regulatory institute (TELCOR) that says all private telecommunications companies need to get government approval for their managers, directors, newsroom chiefs and systems managers. All telecom...

Editor’s note: story updated with comments from mayor of Santo Domingo (updated March 19, 4:15 pm)- The National Police today  released a group of 12 Nicaraguan gold prospectors who had been incarcerated for more than a month for protesting a...

In an attempt to quell simmering tensions in the rural mining zone of Santo Domingo, Chontales, Canadian mining company B2Gold and a group of Nicaraguan gold prospectors penned a tentative truce this weekend that promises to end months of social...

(posted March 1, 6:00 a.m.)- Nicaragua is sending its big guns to Toronto this week to sell the country as a lucrative investment for foreign mining companies during the annual tradeshow of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC)....

(posted Feb. 27, 7:30 a.m.)- A high-level investment and trade mission from the United Kingdom is visiting Nicaragua for the next three days to look at new business opportunities in oil and gas exploration under the framework of the EU-Central...

Canadian developer Kevin Fleming, Chairman of Grupo Mariana, claims he is being “unlawfully detained in Nicaragua.” On Feb. 4, Fleming was notified by Nicaraguan immigration authorities that he is prohibited from leaving the country due to a pending defamation case...

(posted Feb. 12, 9:00 a.m.)- Nicaragua’s polemic electricity distribution company, Gas Natural Fenosa (formerly Unión Fenosa), has finally confirmed that it is pulling out of the country after selling its shares in Disnorte-Dissur for $57.8 million, according to a press...

A source inside Nicaragua’s energy sector is denying reports that Spanish power company Gas Natural Fenosa has sold all its interests in Nicaragua and packed its bags to leave the country. “Gas Natural has not sold its participation in the...

Two of the biggest names in tourism have terminated their partnership with Seaside Mariana Spa & Golf Resort, a massive development project planned for Nicaragua’s central Pacific coast.  Wyndham Hotel Group and Nicklaus Design have independently issued termination letters announcing...