The U.S. military detachment at the U.S. Embassy in Managua today donated $96,000 worth of parachute equipment to the Nicaraguan Army’s Special Operations Unit. The donation, which includes 50 parachutes, altimeters and neon jump lights, will help strengthen the Nicaraguan...

U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), a fierce critic of the left-wing governments of ALBA and one of the only U.S. lawmakers who pays any mind to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, released a statement this week criticizing President Barack Obama for...

 After sitting politely and quietly through last Friday’s dinner summit with U.S. President Barack Obama, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega flew to Venezuela on Saturday to assume a more revolutionary posture by condemning perceived U.S. aggressions against the continuation of the...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica—The most powerful president in the world, Barack Obama, descended on the army-less country of Costa Rica Friday afternoon to meet with his counterparts from Central America and the Dominican Republic in a 22-hour summit that aims...

U.S. Air Force One is scheduled to touch down at Costa Rica’s Juan Santamaría Airport on Friday at 2 p.m. to begin President Barack Obama’s much-anticipated visit to Central America, where he will meet with the presidents of the region...

U.S. Ambassador Phyllis Powers rolled up her sleeves and dabbled in a bit of masonry this morning by placing the foundation stone for the new Nicaraguan-North American Cultural Center (CCNN) that is being built in Managua. The new cultural center,...

(published March 28, 7:00 a.m.)- President Daniel Ortega will get his second chance to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama during a Central American presidential summit in Costa Rica next May. President Obama will be taking a two-country tour of...

The U.S. Embassy in Managua yesterday received the family of fallen U.S.-Nicaraguan soldier Róger Alfonso Suárez, who was killed in Iraq on Dec. 5, 2006. Suárez was born in Boaco, Nicaragua in 1984 and later became a U.S. citizen. He...

Opinion. Friday, February 1 marked the last day that Hillary Rodham Clinton served as Secretary of State. In the last four years she’s traveled 956,733 miles to 112 different countries and had 1,700 meetings with world leaders. But beyond those...

Shortly after joining the U.S. Senate in 1985, John Kerry traveled to Nicaragua on a fact-finding trip to glad-hand President Daniel Ortega and sniff out the truth about Uncle Sam’s martial mischief with the contras.  After returning to Washington, the...