Nicaraguan politics has always been a bare-knuckle, anything-goes affair. But gay-rights activist Marvin Mayorga is about to deliver a political punch that some consider a “low blow” even by Nicaraguan standards. In an effort to pressure—or perhaps embarrass—Nicaraguan lawmakers who...

(posted May 15, 7:00 p.m.)- To the surprise of nobody, the Sandinista-dominated National Assembly today approved President Daniel Ortega’s electoral reform package proposed last month after weeks of breathless hype by First Lady Rosario Murillo. The vote was passed with...

(posted May 9, 6:30 a.m.)- Opposition lawmakers in the Nicaraguan Democratic Bloc (BDN) announced Tuesday afternoon that they have reached consensus with their Sandinista counterparts on most of the elements in the president’s reform package to restructure municipal governments and...

(posted April 17, 6:20 a.m.)- Opposition lawmakers in the legislative National Assembly announced they will participate in the creation of a special committee that will be formed this week to select candidates to replace 16 top government officials whose terms...

(posted Feb. 7, 4:15 p.m.)- Opposition leader and lawmaker Eduardo Montealegre is reportedly recovering satisfactorily after undergoing successful bypass surgery Tuesday morning in Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami, according to a press release by the Independent Liberal Party (PLI)....

(posted Jan. 24, 11:00 a.m.)- After two years of procrastination, gridlock and political puffery, Nicaragua’s National Assembly may finally get around to the urgent task of electing government officials to replace the 35 people who are currently occupying their posts...

(posted Jan. 19, 10:00 p.m.)- The Sandinista Front, in addition to controlling the National Assembly’s legislative directorate for the next two years, will also chair 11 of 15 congressional commissions. The Sandinistas will control the commissions on economy and budget,...

After pledging allegiance to Nicaragua’s Constitution and swearing in last week as national lawmakers in the new National Assembly, the 26 opposition congressmen and women and their respective substitutes from the PLI Alliance face a singular dilemma: to profit sneakily...

Any knowledgeable political analyst that observed what went down in the inaugural session of the Nicaraguan National Assembly would know better than to say that the opposition (PLI) has “good intentions.” However, this is the line that is getting repeated...

The inaugural session of the 2012-2016 legislative National Assembly ended in yet another resounding political defeat for the opposition Independent Liberal Party (PLI) amid the usual shoves, shouts and histrionics associated with Nicaraguan democracy. Despite representing the second-largest voting bloc...