Semana Santa, or Easter Holy Week, in Nicaragua is a week of colorful religious tradition, tourism and partying. Most people get vacation days which makes for a long four-day weekend, which many take ...

The first matancero club emerged in the 1990s. “We formed a club of 500 people and they are the ones who come to dance. Here they have met, here they have fallen in love, here we celebrate their ...

Nicaragua’s continual Christmas theme is also appropriate because President Ortega governs Nicaragua a bit like Santa Claus. Not because he is jolly or has a tummy like a bowl full of jelly ...

The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, hasn’t declared a truce in its persecution of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, not even during Holy Week. Félix ...