Opinion. Six months ago, I walked out of La Modelo, the maximum security prison in Nicaragua infamous for rampant human rights violations. Six months ago, I returned to Seattle, Washington where my family and friends welcomed me with open arms...

Nicaragua now wants me to defend myself after they have deported me from the country. I have filed a legal response to the Nicaraguan prosecutor’s latest attempt to smear my name, lock me up in a sub-human prison, and leave...

Looking healthy, happy and relaxed in his childhood home in Tacoma, Washington, Jason Puracal is focused on putting his life and family back together after spending two years in a Nicaraguan prison for crimes he says he didn’t commit. “I’m...

(posted Sept. 17, 7:00 p.m.)- Jason Puracal, in his first interview since being deported from Nicaragua last Friday, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that he still loves Nicaragua despite being wrongfully convicted and held behind bars here for two years. “I...

(posted Sept. 14, 3:10 p.m.)- After two years behind bars doing time for a wrongful conviction, U.S. citizen Jason Puracal is out of jail and out of Nicaragua. The international crisis agency handling public relations for Jason Puracal reports that...

(posted Sept. 13, 11:15 a.m.)- Nicaragua appeals Judge Roberto Rodríguez says he is “almost 100% convinced” that wrongly incarcerated U.S. citizen Jason Puracal and his 10 other codefendants will be released from jail “at any moment now.” “If we are...

(posted Sept. 12, 7:00 p.m.)-Nicaraguan lawyer Fabbrith Gómez, defense attorney for incarcerated U.S. citizen Jason Puracal, has confirmed that the Appeals Court of Granada this afternoon handed down a verdict absolving his client of all charges of money laundering, drug...

(posted Sept. 6, 8:15 a.m.)- The legally established time limit for a final verdict on the Jason Puracal case has come and gone without a ruling from appellate judges, who are now asking for more time to deliberate and aren’t...

(posted Aug. 21, 8:10 a.m.)- Janis and Jaime Puracal are heading back to the United States this morning with mixed emotions after a two-week visit to Nicaragua that the sisters say felt like a “whirlwind.” The sisters came to Nicaragua...

(posted Aug. 17, 6:20 p.m.)- With the usual delays for the usual reasons, the appeals hearing for Jason Puracal and 10 other co-defendants was adjourned until Monday morning to allow the Nicaraguan Attorney General’s Office more time to make its...