Editorial. The growing public grumble against the Sandinista Front’s anti-democratic behavior and rapacious obsession with political control reached the palace walls this week, when a throng of protesters representing thousands more from two dozen municipalities in Masaya, Managua, Rivas and...

MANAGUA—As Nicaragua’s newly elected and reelected lawmakers report to National Assembly Monday for their first day of grip-and-grin and disingenuous argle-bargle, Sandinista reformer Monica Baltodano will not be among them. For the first time in 15 years, the National Assembly—or...

(posted Jan. 4, 8:23 a.m.)- Leaders of various youth activist movements are convoking another protest march on Jan. 9—one day before President Daniel Ortega’s inauguration—to denounce opposition lawmakers for “legitimizing the election fraud.” The youth organizations, marching under the banner...

MANAGUA—With furled flags tucked under their arms and folded poster board signs held over their heads to fend off the afternoon sun, hundreds of somber-faced Nicaraguans walked quietly up the sidewalks and side streets of Managua, making their way home...

(posted Nov. 24, 11:45 a.m.) - Former presidential candidate Fabio Gadea’s opposition leadership will be put to test Dec. 3 in a nationwide march in Managua against election fraud. Gadea’s political movement is mobilizing 1,800 buses in an effort to...