MANAGUA, Nicaragua—The amount of historical baggage that Nicaragua and the United States bring onboard when they travel together is usually too much to fit politely into the overhead bin. But like most cynical travelers, both countries would rather carry it...

A U.S. military medical team based in Honduras visited the rural southern Caribbean community of Wapí last week to bring medical and dental attention to more than 1,600 Nicaraguans. The 40-member medical team was transported into the rural community of...

A week ago the Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C. published an article (also carried in The Nicaragua Dispatch) I had written with Dr. Ray Walser. In the piece, we argue that the United States should deny the property waiver to...

Opinion. If the Obama Administration is serious about promoting democracy in Nicaragua, it can emphatically do so later this month when it decides whether to grant a property waiver to President Daniel Ortega’s corrupt and authoritarian government. If it opts...

(posted June 22, 11:28 a.m.)- In apparent response to the U.S. government’s decision to suspend the fiscal-transparency waiver for Nicaragua, the Political Council of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) is calling on its member nations to expel USAID...

MANAGUA—Over the past 19 years, Nicaragua has forked over nearly $1.28 billion in compensations to thousands of U.S. and Nicaraguan citizens whose properties were among the 28,000 confiscated by sticky-fingered Sandinista officials in the 1980s, according to official statistics. Since...

Two thousand miles from Managua, far from the claptrap buncombe of Nicaraguan political theater, a small group of Nicaraguan businessmen and politicians accomplished something in Washington today that they haven’t been able to do at home for many years: Have...

(posted June 11, 12:00 p.m.)- General Alvaro Baltodano, President Daniel Ortega’s delegate for foreign investment, presented a convincing case in Washington this morning for why the United States should continue to work with Nicaragua to achieve sustainable social and economic...

In a last-ditch effort to plead Nicaragua’s case in the court of U.S. public opinion and prevent politics from sabotaging the country’s recent economic gains, a mixed group of representatives from the government and private sector has traveled to Washington,...

After winning reelection in a voting process that was “seriously flawed,” President Daniel Ortega’s “increasingly authoritarian” government now wields single-party control over all branches of government, according to the U.S. State Department’s Report on Human Rights for 2011, released today....