Initial actions by the White House, such as cutting USAID programs, undermine the country’s struggling opposition.

Christian pilgrims to Jordan and Jerusalem on Thursday, February 13, 2025, received their certificates at Tabar Hotel, ...

Alberto Lovo Rojas feared returning to Nicaragua with a target on his back. When his uncle was shot twice in the shoulder in the streets during a protest in 2019, they both knew they had to flee .

Since President Daniel Ortega’s government violently repressed a civil uprising in 2018, an estimated 850,000 Nicaraguans ...

Sheynnis Palacios has become a controversial figure in her native Nicaragua. The 23-year-old, crowned on November 18, 2023 in ...

Nicaragua's 2025 constitutional reform establishes co-presidency, extends term limits, and redefines state powers under ...

The revised constitution defines Nicaragua as a "revolutionary" and socialist state and includes the red-and-black flag of the FSLN — a guerrilla group turned political party that overthrew a ...

They argue that the change is made “to fulfill the six-year term established” by the newly approved Nicaraguan Constitution.

Daniel Ortega, who is under Western sanctions for human rights abuses, had proposed the reform himself, which also lengthens the Central American country's presidential term from five to six years.