Proving they have more in common than meets the eye, President Daniel Ortega and Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli—two men who supposedly represent opposite ends of the political spectrum—got chummy on Friday during the Panamanian leader’s first official visit to Nicaragua....

(posted March 6, 2:30 p.m.)- President Daniel Ortega arrived in Honduras this afternoon to participate with his Central American colleagues in a meeting with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden to discuss drug trafficking and organized crime in the region. Not...

(posted Feb. 17, 1:20 p.m.)- The Embassy this afternoon issued a statement to The Nicaragua Dispatch saying it “remains concerned over respect for private property rights in Nicaragua.” Although there are no U.S. citizen claimants involved in the recent land...

(posted Feb. 15, 8:00 p.m.)- Following the conga-line exit of European donors from Nicaragua, Foreign Minister Samuel Santos left today on a three-country tour of Spain, Iran and Italy in search of replacement aid and investment. Garrulous first lady Rosario...

(posted Feb. 15, 7:10 a.m.)- The Nicaraguan government is demanding that the world stop picking on Syria. Nicaragua’s Ambassador to the UN María Rubiales yesterday called for an end to the “aggression and foreign manipulation” against the government of Syria....

Nicaragua yesterday received the disagreeable distinction of getting booted off Freedom House’s list of electoral democracies. Nicaragua was the only country in the world to get tossed from this year’s list of 117 democracies, which includes new recruits Niger, Thailand...

(posted Jan. 19, 11:24 p.m.) - The Sandinista government is sending a high-level delegation to Russia next week to try to strengthen ties with its old cold war tovarish. The Sandinista travel team was announced Thursday afternoon by First Lady...