Violeta Chamorro, whose 1990 upset victory made her Nicaragua's first female president — and ushered peace into civil ...

but not without anti-Semitism.” The official Sandinista newspaper, Barricada, ran an editorial in January 1990 in which it attributed distrust of their country by the “Yankee bureaucracy” to ...

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

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 ...

He was the gatekeeper for Yulu, a village of 1,300 families that has been controlled by anti-Sandinista Indian rebels since January. It was here, only 25 miles northwest of the regional capital of ...

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 ...

His policies included overt support for business and military elites, tacit support for death squads, and covert backing for anti-Sandinista Contra rebels accused of gross human rights abuses.

Since then, many things have changed in Nicaragua.” In recognition of how much popular support was lost by the Sandinistas' anti-Catholic attitude, a mellowed Ortega dressed in casual wear and ...

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 ...

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 right-wing dictators ...

Former Nicaraguan military officer Roberto Samcam was killed on Thursday in Costa Rica, where he was living in exile, his ...