Violeta Chamorro, who has died aged 95, was the first female president elected in the Americas. A conciliatory figure, she ...

With hundreds of the country’s reporters in exile, the press is under pressure like never before. But this outlet is ...

After a Nicaraguan human rights activist who had fled to Costa Rica was killed, concern has grown that the Ortega government may be targeting its enemies abroad.

Ortega has turned his brutal crackdown against critics into a form of interstate violence that also targets Nicaragua’s ...

On July 9 in Davenport Bishop Silvio José Báez Ortega will receive the Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award for his work ...

Bishop Silvio José Báez Ortega, O.C.D., who has risked his life advocating for justice and peace in his beloved homeland of ...

A retired Nicaraguan military officer, Aníbal Rivas Reed, has been sentenced to 50 years for treason in what his family calls ...

Congratulations on Independence Day are being received today by President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko and the Belarusian people from ...

Guatemala's President Bernardo Arévalo announces asylum for Nicaraguan migrants deported by the U.S. who refuse to return ...

God's message didn't immediately make sense to pastor José Luis Orozco. But when U.S. efforts resulted in his release from a ...

Today's readings for the solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul provide us with a glimpse into the remarkable lives of two early ...

The novelist Thomas Mallon's journals reveal a side of the '80s that the standard gay histories—and standard conservative ...