A recent high-seas drug bust in Caribbean waters 150 miles off Nicaragua’s northeastern coast demonstrates how Russia is helping the Nicaraguan Navy to patrol its newly acquired maritime territory won from Colombia in last year’s world court ruling. The drug...

A top U.S. anti-narcotics official says Russia’s recent involvement in Nicaragua’s drug war is “welcome” by the United States. The U.S. government, which has spearheaded drug war efforts in Central America for more than a decade, is not jealous of...

(posted March 5, 3:15 p.m.)- Despite Nicaragua’s efforts to build a firewall against drug trafficking and narco violence, the United States estimates that more than 80% of the primary flow of the cocaine trafficked to the United States last year...

(posted Dec. 10, 4:30 p.m.)- The drug trial of the 18 phony journalists arrested while posing as Televisa reporters started today in Managua under heavy security and the expectation of a verdict by the end of the week. The fake...

The biggest drug trial in Nicaragua’s history ended yesterday with stiff jail sentences handed down for all 23 members of the narco gang. Gang leader Henry Fariñas, owner of the Elite strip club in Managua and a former Central American...

(posted Oct. 1, 10:20 a.m.)- The Russian government is prepared to supply Nicaragua with equipment and weapons aid the war on drugs, according to Viktor Ivanov, head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service, as quoted by Russian media. Ivanov reportedly...

(posted Sept. 18, 1:20 p.m.)- Nicaragua’s criminal trial of the 18 alleged “narco journalists” from Mexico will begin on Dec. 3, according to judge Julio César Arias, who presided over the pretrial hearing this morning in Managua. All 18 Mexicans,...

(posted Sept. 14, 12:30 p.m.)- A photograph published in The Nicaragua Dispatch Aug. 28 has apparently led to new revelations in case of the 18 phony Mexican journalists busted in Nicaragua last month with $9.2 million in alleged drug money...

Former Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) magistrate Julio César Osuna got thrown under the bus last weekend by his secretary Carolina González, who testified that her former boss stole the identities of dead people, street drunks and the mentally ill to...

Perhaps alluding to the recent deployment of 200 U.S. Marines to Guatemala to assist in anti-narcotics efforts, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said last night that substituting national troops for U.S. troops is based on the false premise that Central America...