Looking back on the revolution that shaped her life, Graciela Morales Castillo is wistful yet clear-eyed. “Now that I am an adult and a mother and have a twelve-year-old daughter, I compare my daughter’s childhood with my own, and I...

(posted March 16, 10:15 a.m.)- Retired soldiers from the former Sandinista Popular Army (EPS) agreed to suspend their roadblocks yesterday afternoon after finally reaching an agreement with the government of President Daniel Ortega. The former fighters, who had been blocking...

SÉBACO, Matagalpa—Twenty-two years after handing in their guns and retiring from the Sandinista Popular Army (EPS), thousands of former revolutionary combatants—many now in their 50s—are mobilizing once again in a peaceful yet forceful campaign to demand their rights to pensions,...

(posted March 12, 2:15 p.m.)- A group of several hundred demobilized combatants from the defunct Sandinista Popular Army (EPS) say they will continue to block the Sebaco Bridge “indefinitely” following the failure to reach a negotiated solution with the government...

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...

(posted Dec. 19, 10:40 p.m.)- First Lady and government spokeswoman Rosario Murillo today expressed Nicaragua’s condolences for the death of North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il. Murillo said “the people of Nicaragua and the Government of Nicaragua” feel North...

A leaked internal memorandum circulated yesterday to Sandinista leaders in Masaya—and presumably other departments— instructs local party structures to mobilize all supporters, stay sober, and prepare to defend Daniel Ortega’s victory in the streets on Sunday. The alleged memorandum, titled...

MANAGUA – For the past five years, President Daniel Ortega and his Sandinista officials have talked about ALBA in fanciful and religious terms, comparing Venezuelan aid to the “project of Christ” and suggesting it’s somehow helping to build “the Kingdom...

Two brothers reportedly suffered second and third-degree burns Friday morning after trying to defend an opposition radio station from being torched by a Sandinista mob in the north central mining town of Rosita, according to a release from the opposition...

Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s death Thursday is another example of “imperial aggression” and “criminal actions perpetrated by the United States,” according to President Daniel Ortega’s top advisor on foreign affairs. Even though Gaddafi was apparently captured and killed by Libyan...