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...

The sudden arrest of opposition legislative candidate and outspoken government critic Victor Boitano, captured by police Sunday afternoon for allegedly plotting to kidnap the president’s daughter, is being decried as a setup orchestrated by the ruling Sandinista Front. That’s according...

MANAGUA – On city walls throughout the capital, opponents to the Sandinista government have expressed their feelings about the ruling party with the simple spray-painted message: “F$LN.” The graffiti protest, meant to be an ironic, capitalistic twist to the Sandinista...

ESTELÍ – Since defecting from the ranks of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in 1994, the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) has –with varying degrees of influence – diversified the left-wing vote and split the Sandinista camp. This year, however,...