MANAGUA—Women from all corners of Nicaragua descended on Managua Thursday to celebrate International Women’s Day. Accompanied by the drums of the feminist group Batacuda Feminista and decked out in bright purple and white, the women chanted and marched through the...

A 12-year-old girl who was raped and impregnated by her stepfather gave birth to a five-pound baby boy Oct. 31, according to daily El Nuevo Diario. The baby was delivered by cesarean section due to health complications to the young...

A 12-year-old rape victim impregnated by her stepfather is under the Sandinista government’s protection at Bertha Calderón Hospital in Managua, where state medics are determined to deliver the baby and prevent her from having an abortion, according to Health Minister...

I still remember the afternoon of Oct. 26, 2006, as if it were yesterday. I watched the National Assembly’s TV channel with astonishment as our “illustrious” lawmakers, those on the alleged left as well as the right, voted to penalize...

MANAGUA — On a recent Wednesday morning in the capital, with the kind of asphyxiating city heat that Managua produces so effortlessly, a colorful swarm of thousands of handmade paper butterflies and people dressed like them flittered and fluttered through...