Editor’s note: violence against women in Nicaragua has reached epidemic levels. Actually, it’s worse than that. In 2011, 370,000 women in Nicaragua reported being victims of domestic or sexual violence—57 times higher than the World Health Organization’s definition of an...

(posted March 5, 7:05 a.m.)- A horrific string of drunken driving accidents early Sunday morning in the northern city of Estelí claimed the lives of five people and injured six others, including one person who is hospitalized in critical condition....

(posted Feb. 17, 5:30 p.m.)- Human rights activists and opposition politicians are reacting with disgust and outrage today to a court ruling that will put two Sandinista activists behind bars for only 3 years for killing a family of three...

The recent execution of rearmed contra fighter Santos Guadalupe Borge—aka “Pablo Negro”— could give new political purpose to the contras’ mercurial and wilted Nicaraguan Resistance Party (PRN). PRN national secretary Roberto Ferrey says the killing of Pablo Negro and the...

(posted Jan. 13, 4:45 p.m.) - A decomposing corpse discovered yesterday with bullet holes in the head and stomach is that of rearmed contra leader Santos Guadalupe Joyas Borge, known as “Pablo Negro,” according to the victim’s family members. The...

(posted Dec. 14, 7:21 a.m.) - The Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH) is sending a fact-finding mission to the “mining triangle” in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) today to investigate claims of a rearmed rebel group operating in...

(posted Dec. 10, 7:44 p.m.) - A series of armed attacks against police in Nicaragua’s “mining triangle” have left two officers dead and two injured in the past 24 hours, according to the National Police.  On Friday morning, a group...

(posted Dec.7, 4:39 p.m.) - An anti-Sandinista group calling itself the “Democratic Coastal Front 380” gunned down a local Sandinista leader in the rural community of Luku Paraska, 60 kilometers from Mulukukú in Nicarraguan’s North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN), according...

Six people have reportedly been killed and dozens more arrested in the past 48 hours in bouts of political violence in Masaya and various parts of northern Nicaragua, where citizens report a tense atmosphere amid allegations of police repression and...