Denis Obando is certain he won reelection as mayor of Nueva Guinea. But he says he’s also certain that Nicaragua is no longer a democracy, and that’s why it doesn’t matter how many votes he got on Nov. 4 because...

Nicaragua’s two opposition Liberal parties and the Sandinista-controlled Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) have found themselves in a Mexican standoff over four municipalities awarded to the ruling Sandinista Front following the Nov. 4 elections. The opposition argues that the CSE’s political...

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega last night offered his first public reaction to last Sunday’s municipal elections with a bit of Yogi Berra-like logic, “The people voted for the people and so the people can’t let the people down.” The president...

As soldiers and riot police continue to occupy various towns in northern Nicaragua, a group of sympathizers from the Independent Liberal Party (PLI) walked silently in procession to the cemetery of Ciudad Darío this afternoon to bury Vidal Obando, one...

(posted Nov. 5, 3:50 p.m.)- The U.S. government is expressing concern about Nicaragua’s municipal elections last Sunday, lamenting that the polling process did not demonstrate necessary levels of transparency to guarantee Nicaraguans or the international community that the process reflected...

(posted Nov. 5, 3:00 p.m.)- Electoral magistrate Roberto Rivas has just announced the final vote count from the 2012 municipal elections, giving the ruling Sandinista Front a whopping 87% victory over the opposition. In total, the Sandinistas won 134 of...

More than 20% of Nicaraguans who tried to vote Sunday were excluded from the polls because they did not appear on either of the two voter registries, according to a preliminary report by electoral watchdog the Institute for Development and...

(posted Nov. 5, 12:30 p.m.)- A tense calm has gripped various communities in the north of the country as opposition members of the Independent Liberal Party (PLI) occupy the streets in various contested municipalities where the Sandinista-controlled Supreme Electoral Council...

News Analysis. A tin-pot election that started with the frightening possibility of electing a zombie government culminated in an overwhelming victory for the ruling Sandinista Front early Monday morning amid allegations of dirty tricks, official mischief, voter exclusion, political tomfoolery,...

(posted Nov. 4, 2:00 p.m.)- The Independent Liberal Party (PLI) is denouncing the Sandinista-controlled Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) for obstructing the inscription of hundreds of its party’s poll watchers in Managua by not providing credentials in time. PLI campaign representative...