(posted April 9, 5:00 p.m.)- The turnout at today’s protest march in the mountains of Matagalpa, was remarkably smaller than opposition lawmakers hoped for, but Independent Liberal Party (PLI) congressional chief Alberto Lacayo says it succeeded in demonstrating people’s discontent...

Sensing an opportunity to tap into a grassroots opposition movement that is generating some genuine pushback against the ruling Sandinista Front, national lawmakers from the Independent Liberal Party (PLI) are trekking up to the mountains of Matagalpa today to participate...

RANCHO GRANDE, Matagalpa- The grassroots pushback against open-pit gold mining in Nicaragua has spread to the community of Rancho Grande, where hundreds of local campesino residents last Thursday flooded the streets in a dust-cloud protest march against Canadian mining company...

Opinion. Throughout the history of our country, almost every person who has reached the Presidency of the Republic has been considered “the chosen one”—a sanctified individual who is the only person capable of leading the country. Commonly, these individuals demonstrate...

An anti-government group known as the Patriotic Movement for the Republic (MPR) is calling on Nicaraguan civil society to “lose its fear” and unite in an “organized and combative civil struggle” against what it calls the “dictatorial” alliance of power...

(posted Oct. 8, 10:20 a.m.)- The Sandinista government’s intimidation tactics to repress a taxi union protest have  worked. On Sunday afternoon, the head of the taxi drivers’ union announced an end to their protest in exchange for the 40 incarcerated...

A judge’s decision this morning to incarcerate 40 taxi drivers without bond is being decried by defense lawyers as an act of “political repression” and “a message of state intimidation.” “In Nicaragua, social protests are not allowed,” defense lawyer Manuel...

Four police officers were injured—one seriously—following a violent clash Monday afternoon with protesting taxi drivers who had blocked three of the principle traffic roundabouts in Managua to demand better gas subsidies. Officer Heriberto Castro was run over and dragged underneath...

MANAGUA—Sleeping in shifts during the day so the whole group can remain awake and vigilant at night, the 17 youth activists maintaining a permanent protest camp in front of the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) are preparing themselves for what they...

MANAGUA—An anti-government youth activist group known as the Broad Opposition Front (FAO) is denouncing political persecution after a series of violent attacks against protesters, one of whom lost her pregnancy as a result of injuries suffered during a beat down...