Nicaragua’s homicide rate—already the second-lowest in the region behind Costa Rica—dipped even lower last year to 12 murders for every 100,000 people, strengthening the country’s claim to the superlative distinction of “safest in Central America,” according to National Police. Police...

(posted May 3, 12:15 p.m.)- Eight people were reportedly killed and two others seriously injured in an ambush in the rural municipality of La Cruz de Río Grande, in the South Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAS), according to daily El Nuevo...

(posted April 15, 10:30 p.m.)- Five foreign tourists—three Australians and two Danes—were assaulted, tied up and robbed while traveling on a microbus through the northern town of Somotillo, according to a report in El Nuevo Diario. The five tourists—four men...

U.S. domestic policies have significant consequences for criminal violence in Central America. The United States is the top consumer of illegal drugs in the world, yet focuses much of its attention and resources on the supply side of the equation...

(posted March 11, 8:30 a.m.)- The National Police released a short press statement Saturday afternoon saying that Julio Centeno Caffarena, the 52-year-old son of the Attorney General by the same name, died due to an self-afflicted “accidental gunshot” with a...

(posted March 5, 2:00 p.m.)- The American Chamber of Commerce is expressing alarm over a recent wave of crime in recent days, including a brazen armed assault on two trucks carrying $1 million in computer equipment belonging to the company...

(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. 25, 9:00 a.m.)- A Friday morning prison riot in Estelí ended with 16 injuries but no deaths, according to the daily El Nuevo Diario. The riot broke out Friday morning, during family visitation day, when one of the...

(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...

(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...