Most Nicaraguans are happy with their government, pleased with direction of the country, satisfied with their democracy, optimistic about the economy… and willing to pull up sticks and emigrate to a foreign land. According to a recent M&R Consultants poll,...

Kendal Knetemann had a charmed childhood growing up in Nicaragua. She went on play dates with her classmates, visited Playa Pochomil with her family, and swam competitively with Managua’s “Tiburones” swim team at Nejapa Country Club. Though her parents were...

News Analysis. When people complain that there is no political opposition in Nicaragua, they aren’t overstating the problem. According to a poll published this week by M&R Consultants, 56% of Nicaraguans identify as members of the ruling Sandinista Front and...

MANAGUA—One of the Clinton administration’s former top advisors on Latin America says he thinks the U.S. government doesn’t know what to do about Nicaragua. Since 2008, the U.S. has repeatedly expressed concerns over Nicaragua’s eroding democracy, and slashed bilateral aid...

Not to be outdone by the president and first lady when it comes to mixing religion and politics, Nicaragua’s Roman Catholic Conference of Bishops this week issued its strongest rebuke to date of the Sandinistas’ political model, which the government...

Opinion. There is something that we, the Nicaraguan youth of all political persuasions, have not yet understood. According to the old school of thought, which is inculcated in us by our predecessors, we should be loyal and offer unconditional support...

MANAGUA—Respect for the constitution and rule of law are imperative to preserving the peace in Nicaragua, according to the principal architect of the Sandinista government’s war effort in the 1980s. “The peace that we conquered with guns can only be...

The full implementation of the Central American Peace Plan hatched 25 years ago this week remains a pending task in the region, according to former Guatemalan President and peace-plan signatory Vinicio Cerezo. Marginalization of youth, organized crime, gender inequality, poverty...

Nicaraguan human-rights activists claim the Sandinista government’s choice of a confessed pederast as its official guest of honor at tomorrow’s 33rd anniversary of the popular revolution—an event the government has dedicated to the youth of Nicaragua—is a “public insult.” The...

After six laborious months of politicking, glad-handing, video gaming, canal dreaming, gum flapping, unilateral legislating and opposition arm-flapping, the 91 lawmakers of Nicaragua’s honorable National Assembly have turned off their cell phones, grunted into their bathing suits and head off...