(posted March 8, 10:30 a.m.)- U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, yesterday pushed a step further legislation calling on the State Department to develop a strategy to counter Iran’s increasing presence in the...

(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...

Analysis The fallout from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador last month continues to reverberate loudly in Washington, and could mark what some think is the beginning of a geopolitical tidal shift in the military-industrial...

(Posted Jan. 11, 1:02 p.m.) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left Managua for Cuba at 9 a.m. this morning, without announcing any new aid or investment for Nicaragua, and without offering to pardon Nicaragua’s $164 million debt with the Persian...

MANAGUA—Despite the speculative hullabaloo and hurly-burly about the visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who arrived in Nicaragua late this morning, the buildup might end in more of a fizzle than a pop. Other than a lung full of political...

(Posted Dec. 29, 10:33 a.m.) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the first world leader to reserve a seat at Daniel Ortega’s Jan. 10 presidential inauguration, according Iran’s director of international relations. In a hemispheric tour that U.S. House Foreign...