Nicaragua may be a small country but it is an emblematic one. In 1979 the leftist Sandinista movement overthrew a corrupt dictatorship. In response, the United States organised the Contra guerrillas.

Jaime Morales was a wealthy Nicaraguan banker in the 1980s when Daniel Ortega stole his six-bedroom house. Ortega, who was then Nicaragua’s President, called it a justified “confiscation” on behalf ...

Nicaragua’s first female president, Violeta Chamorro — who died in exile in San José, Costa Rica, on Saturday at age 95 — was best known for her stunning 1990 election victory over the country's ...