An international development bank provided hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to the Nicaraguan government, even as the United Nations and human rights groups documented widespread killing, ...

For over two decades, Nicaragua was: The safest country in Latin America.[2]Its police force was internationally recognized for its innovative community policing policies. Unlike its neighbors El ...

Pope Francis is flanked by four of the sixteen priests he ordained Sunday during the Regina Coeli noon prayer in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 22, 2018. Pope Francis is expressing ...

Not long ago Nicaragua seemed to be an island of calm in an otherwise turbulent corner of the world. The country was one of the poorest in the hemisphere and long ruled by a leftist autocrat and his ...

The report notes that in 2018 there were 46 attacks against the Catholic Church, including a mob entering the Managua Cathedral, death threats against Nicaraguan priests, and the desecration of ...

A new Museum of Memory has opened in San José, Costa Rica, giving Nicaraguan exiles and victims’ families a public space to document the repression that followed the 2018 protests against Daniel ...

Reporting from Managua, NicaraguaReporting from Managua, Nicaragua — A sense of smoldering discontent was evident in Nicaragua on Monday after President Daniel Ortega’s decision to cancel a welfare ...

Bishop Rolando Alvarez of Matagalpa, in the charitable Caritas agency’s center that was burned down in a fire ignited by pro-government forces earlier this year. Picture taken in mid-November. (Credit ...

Violent confrontations between protesters and government security forces have been steadily escalating since April, fueling speculation that Nicaragua is on the brink of all-out civil war. Thousands ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Paul Oquist Kelley, Private Secretary for National ...

Nicaragua has instituted a “shoot to kill” policy in dealing with protests that has resulted in an “alarming number of deaths,” according to an investigation by Amnesty International. According to the ...

Brooklyn Rivera, a renowned Indigenous leader from Nicaragua who spent years fighting for the rights of his community and was ...