Editorial. The growing public grumble against the Sandinista Front’s anti-democratic behavior and rapacious obsession with political control reached the palace walls this week, when a throng of protesters representing thousands more from two dozen municipalities in Masaya, Managua, Rivas and...

(posted Dec. 19, 10:40 p.m.)- First Lady and government spokeswoman Rosario Murillo today expressed Nicaragua’s condolences for the death of North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il. Murillo said “the people of Nicaragua and the Government of Nicaragua” feel North...

A leaked internal memorandum circulated yesterday to Sandinista leaders in Masaya—and presumably other departments— instructs local party structures to mobilize all supporters, stay sober, and prepare to defend Daniel Ortega’s victory in the streets on Sunday. The alleged memorandum, titled...

MANAGUA – For the past five years, President Daniel Ortega and his Sandinista officials have talked about ALBA in fanciful and religious terms, comparing Venezuelan aid to the “project of Christ” and suggesting it’s somehow helping to build “the Kingdom...

Two brothers reportedly suffered second and third-degree burns Friday morning after trying to defend an opposition radio station from being torched by a Sandinista mob in the north central mining town of Rosita, according to a release from the opposition...

Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s death Thursday is another example of “imperial aggression” and “criminal actions perpetrated by the United States,” according to President Daniel Ortega’s top advisor on foreign affairs. Even though Gaddafi was apparently captured and killed by Libyan...

Two weeks of heavy rains, which have claimed 13 lives and displaced 27,800 families, has forced the Sandinista government to ask for international aid to respond to the disaster

MANAGUA – When Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega returned to the presidency in 2007, it was anyone’s guess how Nicaragua’s private sector would respond. After all, the pernicious policies of the Sandinistas’ experimental “mixed-economy” in the 1980s were marked by massive...

MANAGUA – With next month’s general elections looming like a thundercloud over Mombacho Volcano, the political barometer for U.S.-Nicaragua relations is forecasting a chance of stormy weather ahead. Since President Daniel Ortega returned to office in 2007, political relations between...

The Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) announced Monday that Nicaraguan printing press ARDISA has finished printing 4.575 million of the 5.2 million ballots that will be used for the 2011 general elections. The final 700,000 ballots are scheduled to be printed...