(posted March 2,1:00 p.m.)- Passengers flying to Managua on American Airlines will soon have the option of getting more legroom without upgrading to First Class. As part of the airline’s Chapter 11 reorganization, American Airlines is modernizing its entire mainline...

Economists, politicos and business leaders are offering mixed interpretations of Tuesday’s unexpected shakeup in the Central Bank, and wondering aloud what the managerial move might mean for the country’s macroeconomic stability and dubious democratic institutionalism. The private sector is urging...

  Nicaragua’s Sahlman Seafoods this week became a giant in the land of shrimps. On Wednesday, this small U.S. seafood company emerged from its shrimp farm among the mangroves of Chinandega to receive the U.S. State Department’s highest international business...

Despite President Daniel Ortega’s promise to continue cooperating with the private sector, Nicaragua’s largest business chamber claims his government is already ruffling feathers in country’s poultry industry. On Tuesday, the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (COSEP) accused the Sandinista government...

The low-wire balancing act that the Ortega Administration has managed between politics and the economy has not been without a few serious missteps along the way. The biggest stumble came in November 2008, when the Sandinista government and its duplicitous...

MANAGUA—One of Central America’s leading businessmen says Nicaragua’s conditions for business and investment are more favorable than they appear from a distance. While there are some doubts about what an emboldened President Daniel Ortega will do with unchecked power in...

Waving a Nicaraguan flag from the driver’s side window, the inaugural flight of America Airlines flight 947 taxied to its gate in Managua yesterday at 2:30 p.m., carrying 160 passengers from Miami. The new flight—America Airlines’ third daily flight between...

With a bluish-gray predawn haze casting long shadows over the choppy Caribbean waters, a Nicaraguan Navy patrol boat gave full-throttle chase to a 400-horsepower drug boat racing up the coastline past Bilwi, the drug-infested capital of Nicaragua’s North Atlantic Autonomous...

MANAGUA—The electoral turbulence that normally rattles Nicaragua’s economy at the end of every presidential quinquennial, forcing investors to return to their seats and strap themselves in for a bumpy ride, has failed to materialize this year despite the political cumulonimbus...

MANAGUA – When Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega returned to the presidency in 2007, it was anyone’s guess how Nicaragua’s private sector would respond. After all, the pernicious policies of the Sandinistas’ experimental “mixed-economy” in the 1980s were marked by massive...