Nicaragua
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WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY—The White House on Monday excluded Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua from the U.S.-hosted Summit of the Americas this week, prompting Mexico’s president to make good ...
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua—A strong earthquake shook Nicaragua Thursday morning, sending people fleeing into the streets, but there were no initial reports of damage. The U.S. Geological Survey ...
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Taiwan is reeling from yet another diplomatic blow. Nicaragua seized Taiwan’s former embassy within its territory and handed the keys to China.
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Nicaragua declared it is breaking ties with Taiwan. Instead, it’s once again embracing diplomatically with Beijing. Taiwan responded to the move, saying no amount of pressure ...
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The government of Nicaragua announced Thursday that it has terminated “diplomatic relations” with Taiwan and ceased to have “any contact or official relationship,” declaring that it ...
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The Biden administration is threatening to sanction Nicaragua after the country’s socialist president won a fourth term in a questionable election. President Joe Biden is calling ...
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The Biden administration threatened sanctions against Nicaragua after longtime President Daniel Ortega secured a fourth term in an election that observers say was a sham. In ...
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua—One member of an Indigenous community in Nicaragua was killed and three others were missing after assailants shot at them on Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast, activists ...
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WASHINGTON—The United States on Wednesday blacklisted four Nicaraguans, including a daughter of President Daniel Ortega, as Washington warned it would continue to use diplomatic and economic ...
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua—In a one-two punch, Hurricane Iota roared ashore as a dangerous Category 4 storm along almost exactly the same stretch of Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast that ...
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—Iota became the thirteenth hurricane of the Atlantic season early Sunday, threatening to bring another dangerous system to Nicaragua and Honduras—countries recently clobbered by ...
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Hurricane Eta continues to spin across northern Nicaragua after lashing the country’s Caribbean coast for much of Tuesday and setting off deadly landslides.
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua—The heart of powerful Hurricane Eta began moving ashore in Nicaragua Tuesday with devastating winds and rains that had already destroyed rooftops and caused rivers ...
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua—For four months, everything was virtual: the modeling and speech classes, the make-up courses and the emotional support session via videoconference. And when eight contestants ...
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Hundreds of freight trucks were stuck on the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua on Friday as the two countries remain locked.
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The United States imposed sanctions on another son of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Rafael, on Thursday, accusing him of money laundering and corruption, in the latest ...
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A Nicaraguan court on Friday convicted a dual U.S.-Nicaraguan citizen of killing a nursing student in New York state after an unusual trial that saw many ...
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BINGHAMTON, N.Y.—Witnesses have gathered in a small city in upstate New York over the past three weeks to testify in the trial of a man accused ...
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MANAGUA—Nicaraguan police on Dec. 15 beat at least seven journalists with batons, including one of the country’s best-known editors, in an escalating crackdown on members of ...
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The United States on Sept. 5 declared Nicaragua’s civil unrest a threat to the region’s security, saying government repression of protests risked creating an overwhelming displacement ...
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Nicaragua’s government committed human rights violations and turned a blind eye while armed mobs rounded up protesters, some of whom were later raped with rifles and tortured ...