MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — The government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega arrested five opposition leaders during a major weekend round up, in what appears to be widespread detentions of ...

From the Palace eminence on a dead volcano he could see all Managua lying flat under a pale moon, its two-story houses and paved streets dark and quiet. There was not a U. S. Marine in the place.

Nicaragua is a small, hot Central ... flew from my home in Mexico City to Managua, the Nicaraguan ... as if it were a fairy tale, how he and his comrades had taken over the National Palace, in ...

Evidence of that is when party leaders faithful to Ortega ordered their college student members to attack the student protesters, students from several major universities – the National Agrarian ...

During construction of a new baseball stadium in the capital city of Nicaragua, workers were shocked to unearth the 1,000-year-old remains.

NPR's Eyder Peralta recently visited Nicaragua for the first time in a decade, gaining rare access to a nation that is hostile to journalists and known as the Western Hemisphere's newest dictatorship.

Families of four well-known opposition figures jailed in Nicaragua fear for their relatives ... the El Chipote jail in Managua, Nicaragua, on ... on the National Palace in 1978 ...