(posted May 8, 2:50 p.m.)- The board of directors of the Nicaraguan-American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) met this morning with Vice President Omar Halleslevens in what business leaders are hoping is a first step towards establishing direct contact with the...

MANAGUA—After six years of record-setting growth in commerce and investment, Nicaragua continues to consolidate its position as the region’s unlikely poster child for the U.S. free-trade agreement with Central America (CAFTA). Though the Sandinista Front initially attempted to block the...

(posted April 26, 9:20 a.m.)- Cone Denim’s massive $100 million textile plant in Ciudad Sandino, which opened in April 2008 just to close a few months later due to the world economic crisis, will reopen by the end of 2012...

(posted April 23, 1:00 p.m.)- After helping deliver monstrous 91% growth in foreign-direct investment in 2011, Nicaragua’s investment-promotion agency ProNicaragua was rewarded for its hard work by being named the top investment-promotion agency in the world, according to Global Investment...

The board of directors of the Nicaraguan-American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) met this morning with Carlos Pellas, president of Grupo Pellas, to discuss the importance of improving Nicaragua’s business climate, strengthening its institutions and securing the U.S. waivers to ensure...

After chalking up impressive growth in exports and foreign-direct investment in 2011, Nicaragua is feeling the pressure to repeat this year. The 2012 numbers aren’t expected to be as eyebrow-raising as last year’s, when Nicaragua registered an extraordinary 47% increase...

Over the past five years of President Daniel Ortega’s government, Nicaragua’s economy has gone from being Central America’s perennial basket case to the region’s rising star. Not only is Nicaragua the fastest-growing economy in Central America in terms of exports...

Editorial TOLA—The government’s recent stake to a 20-manzana lot of prime beachfront property allegedly owned by Punta Teonoste eco-hotel has been an unwelcome reminder of how Nicaragua’s long shadow from the past continues to obscure the path forward. Like a...

In response to your article “Government Investigates Borderland Titles,” published Feb. 19 Nicaragua Dispatch, I want to make a couple of legal clarifications regarding the penultimate and antepenultimate paragraphs, where you write:   The law establishes a 5-km “Border Security...

(published Feb. 23, 6:40 p.m.)- TOLA—A week after sounding the alarm bells by accusing the Sandinista government of trying to confiscate 20 manzanas (34.5 acres) of their family’s land adjacent to their $2 million Eco-resort Punta Teonoste, the Bühler family...