(posted Feb. 7, 5:00 p.m.)- Republican Sen. Marco Rubio says he will no longer block the Obama Administration’s nominations for ambassadors to Nicaragua, Panama, Uruguay, and a string of Caribbean countries, raising expectations that Phyllis Powers will be confirmed as...

Analysis The fallout from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador last month continues to reverberate loudly in Washington, and could mark what some think is the beginning of a geopolitical tidal shift in the military-industrial...

(posted Feb. 2, 9:50 a.m.)- For the second time in less than three months, José Miguel Insulza, secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), had to issue a clarification on the hemispheric organization’s position on Nicaragua’s elections last...

(posted Jan. 31, 6:15 p.m.)-The Organization of American States’ new representative to Nicaragua today confirmed that the President Daniel Ortega won the Nov. 6 presidential elections with 59.8% of the vote, according to the hemispheric body’s parallel fast count on...

  Analysis. Florida Republicans’ two-month hurry-up offense against Sandinista President Daniel Ortega finally appears to be moving the chains against Nicaragua. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton last week echoed Republican concerns about Ortega by calling Nicaragua’s elections a...

Guatemalan businessman José Orive Vides, president of the Association of American Chambers of Commerce of Latin America (AACCLA)—the Western Hemisphere’s largest association of business chambers—is calling on the U.S. government to not “punish Nicaragua” with any punitive actions that would...

Foreign Minister Samuel Santos today responded to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s comments about Nicaragua’s democratic “setback” by issuing an official statement defending Nicaragua’s democratic process and calling for respectful relations with the United States. “The elections of Nov....

(posted Jan. 25, 6:20 p.m.)- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today released a press statement calling Nicaragua’s Nov. 6 general elections a “setback to democracy in Nicaragua.” “Nicaragua’s recent elections were not conducted in a transparent and impartial...

Nicaragua yesterday received the disagreeable distinction of getting booted off Freedom House’s list of electoral democracies. Nicaragua was the only country in the world to get tossed from this year’s list of 117 democracies, which includes new recruits Niger, Thailand...

Analysis. For the first time in Nicaragua’s modern democratic history, the country will watch on Jan. 10 as an incumbent president hands himself the presidential sash for another term in office. The opposition claims Daniel Ortega’s reelection has ruptured Nicaragua’s...