The Anti-Defamation League’s 1983 report called Nicaragua “a country without Jews, but not without anti-Semitism.” The official Sandinista newspaper, Barricada, ...

Enrique Bolanos of the Liberal party became the third democratically elected president in Nicaragua since Ortega’s Sandinistas peacefully handed over power in 1990. “This is a new era for ...

Before the assassination of her husband, the editor of the only independent newspaper in Nicaragua, Violeta Chamorro was ...

President Daniel Ortega, reacting to the U.S. House`s rejection of President Reagan`s $100 million aid package for anti-Sandinista rebels, said he did not believe the U.S. administration`s ”a… ...

As the truck approached this village of weatherbeaten huts built on stilts sinking into the mud, a young Miskito Indian ”warrior,” cartridge-belts crisscrossed on his chest and an M-60 … ...

The country’s anti-Sandinista right split this year, with some supporting Jorge Rizo — the handpicked successor of Arnoldo Aleman, a far-right former president currently under house arrest on ...

Forty years ago this week, on July 19, 1979, rebels who called themselves Sandinistas overthrew the Nicaraguan dynasty of the Somoza family that was first installed by U.S. Marines in the 1930s ...

In recognition of how much popular support was lost by the Sandinistas' anti-Catholic attitude, a mellowed Ortega dressed in casual wear and promised respect for the Church and for democracy in ...

President Ronald Reagan warned in 1986 that if Nicaragua’s “Sandinistas” remained in power, “terrorists and subversives” would have sanctuary “just 2 days’ driving time from ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua – Thousands of Sandinista militants on Tuesday bid goodbye to Tomas Borge Martinez, the last surviving founder of the guerrilla movement that overthrew Nicaragua's U.S.-backed ...