(posted Jan. 18, 6:15 am) - Costa Rica is rejecting a resolution passed yesterday by the Central American Court of Justice demanding that country halt construction on a 160-KM border highway that parallels the Nicaragua’s Rio San Juan on the...

Veteran Nicaraguan pitcher and seasoned international troublemaker Vicente Padilla yesterday agreed to terms with the Boston Red Sox for a $1.5 million minor league contract that includes an invitation to spring training next March. Padilla, a hard-throwing and hard-drinking righty...

(posted Dec. 20, 7:15 p.m.)- Costa Rica today denounced an alleged incursion by 15 Nicaraguan soldiers “approximately 1 kilometer into Costa Rican territory,” where Nica troops allegedly “threatened” Costa Rican police officers patrolling the area. The incident occurred Dec. 19...

Putting concerns for Mother Nature before the politics of motherland, a group of Costa Rican activists is challenging their government’s hasty efforts to build a border highway paralleling Nicaragua’s Rio San Juan. The Tico environmentalists filed an injunction before Costa...

Centuries’ old border tensions between Costa Rica and Nicaragua are flaring again in time for the holidays. This time, it’s over allegations that Costa Rica is attempting to destroy Nicaragua’s Río San Juan by building a highway paralleling the river,...

(posted Nov. 25, 9:05 a.m.) - Nicaraguan boxing champ Román “Chocolatito” González is being accused by his wife of physical aggression and mistreatment, according to the daily La Prensa. Raquel Doña, wife of the WBA flyweight and minimumweight world champ,...

In a country where politicians quote the Bible and the clergy preach politics, Nicaragua’s Conference of Bishops is criticizing the Nov. 6 general elections for being undemocratic and unrepresentative of the people’s will. The Roman Catholic Conference of Bishops released...

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...

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...

Welcome to the first edition of The Nicaragua Dispatch. The Nicaragua Dispatch is an independent English-language news source committed to providing honest, informative and thought-provoking journalism from this fascinating and complex country. Our mission is to expand readers’ understanding of...