(posted April 30, 7:50 a.m.)- Efforts to push Arnoldo Alemán’s Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) towards something that could be confused for a modern democratic political party came to a screeching halt this weekend when the reformers were kicked out of...

The political power-sharing arrangement that has defined Nicaragua’s tropical democracy for the past decade is in need of serious restructuring under new management, according to opposition leader Eduardo Montealegre, who’s volunteering for the job. The 2011 general elections, which relegated...

Estelí – Six years ago, former President Arnoldo Alemán’s political career and life seemed to be coming to an end. He was facing 20 years in prison for allegedly bilking the state out of some $80 million during his presidency,...

Arnoldo Alemán is at it again. By aiming to split the right-wing vote, the portly former president of Nicaragua launched a presidential bid clearly intended to benefit Daniel Ortega’s highly contentious reelection effort. In 1999, Alemán and Ortega forged a...

With a week to go before election day, President Daniel Ortega finally appears confident that his seemingly insurmountable lead in the polls will translate into victory on Nov. 6. A new voter-intention survey suggests Ortega’s lead has widened to a...

Arnoldo Alemán showed up at lunchtime. Ten minutes before he arrived, the animator in charge of pumping up the crowd for the Liberation Constitutional Party’s campaign closer shouted that 150,000 “true Liberals” had gathered along the “Road of Resistance,” a...

EL RAIZON – When Enrique Bolaños handed the presidential sash to Daniel Ortega on Jan. 10, 2007, he grabbed his successor and former nemesis by the deltoids and pulled him in for some whispered advice amid the din of music...