May Day is supposed to be a moment when the workers of the world unite. But in Nicaragua, International Workers’ Day has become another example of the partisan divide that exists between Sandinista unions that echo the official party line...

(posted March 16, 10:15 a.m.)- Retired soldiers from the former Sandinista Popular Army (EPS) agreed to suspend their roadblocks yesterday afternoon after finally reaching an agreement with the government of President Daniel Ortega. The former fighters, who had been blocking...

SÉBACO, Matagalpa—Twenty-two years after handing in their guns and retiring from the Sandinista Popular Army (EPS), thousands of former revolutionary combatants—many now in their 50s—are mobilizing once again in a peaceful yet forceful campaign to demand their rights to pensions,...

(posted March 7, 8: 00 p.m.)- Tensions continue to heat up between the traditional Sandinista bases and the party’s political leadership as a group of several hundred ex-Sandinista soldiers blocked the Inter-American Highway for the second day today demanding government...

A leaked internal memorandum circulated yesterday to Sandinista leaders in Masaya—and presumably other departments— instructs local party structures to mobilize all supporters, stay sober, and prepare to defend Daniel Ortega’s victory in the streets on Sunday. The alleged memorandum, titled...

The Sandinista Front has given Nicaraguan cédulas (state ID cards) to hundreds of Hondurans in attempt to win votes in the municipality of Santa María, Nueva Segovia, near the Honduran border, according to allegations made yesterday by the Independent Liberal...

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...

The sudden arrest of opposition legislative candidate and outspoken government critic Victor Boitano, captured by police Sunday afternoon for allegedly plotting to kidnap the president’s daughter, is being decried as a setup orchestrated by the ruling Sandinista Front. That’s according...

MANAGUA – On city walls throughout the capital, opponents to the Sandinista government have expressed their feelings about the ruling party with the simple spray-painted message: “F$LN.” The graffiti protest, meant to be an ironic, capitalistic twist to the Sandinista...