Managua, Nicaragua News

The controversial Sandinista mayor of Managua, Alexis Arguello, a former world boxing champion, has been found dead at his home with a gunshot wound.

The Venezuelan airplane carrying ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya overflies Toncontin international airport in Tegucigalpa.

Alexis Arguello, 57 Ex-boxer, mayor of Managua dies of gunshot wound By BRUCE WEBER New York Times Sun.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- The Mayor of Nicaragua's capital, Managua, was found dead today at his residence in an apparent suicide, according to Salvadorian newspaper La Prensa.

Alexis Arguello, who battled his way to three world boxing titles in the ring but lost several bouts with personal demons outside the ropes, was found dead early Wednesday at his home in Managua, Nicaragua.

The Associated Press Investigators have released new evidence that points to suicide in the death of Managua Mayor and boxing great Alexis Arguello.

Eds: APNewsNow. Will stand. AP Photo MNG108, MNG107 MANAGUA, Nicaragua Investigators have released new evidence that points to suicide in the death of Managua Mayor and boxing great Alexis Arguello.

Minutes after I woke up to get ready for the presentation of a CPJ report on press freedom conditions in Nicaragua , I turned on the TV.

MIAMI - For most of Alexis Arguello's life as a three-division world champion, "home" was a foreign concept.

Alexis Arguello Dies, Boxing Champ Became Mayor of Managua >> Posted By LuisR 21 hours, 14 minutes ago in Sports Alexis Arguello, the former boxing world champion who in 2008 was elected mayor of his hometown of Managua, Nicaragua, was found dead on Wednesday.

Nicaragua's National Police are investigating the suspicious death of Alexis Arguello, Managua Mayor and a boxing great.

Bob Arum Responds to the Death of Alexis Arguello Posted by Ramon Aranda on 07.01.2009 Top Rank's chief has a few words for 'The Explosive Thin Man'. Top Rank CEO Bob Arum made a statement today concerning the death of Alexis Arguello: "We at Top Rank are very saddened to learn about the death of Alexis Arguello.

Nearly three decades ago, a ferocious puncher and a brilliant ring tactician waged one of boxing's epic brawls under the twinkling lights of the Orange Bowl in Miami, a fight so big that few remember Roberto Duran was on the undercard.

The presidents of nations of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas have met for an emergency meeting in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Managua Mayor Alexis Arguello, a three-time world boxing champion, has been found dead.Presidential spokeswoman Rosario Murillo confirms the death.His Sandinista party's Radio Ya says coroners are conducting an autopsy to determine the cause of death.Arguello once fought against the Sandinistas in the 1980s, but joined the ...

The presidents of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas nations Monday withdrew their ambassadors from Honduras and called on the nations of the continent to act against the coup in Honduras, after an emergency meeting in Managua.

Honduras is now torn between two presidents: one legally recognized by world bodies after he was deposed and forced from the country by his own soldiers, and another supported by the Central American nation's congress, courts and military.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said on Sunday that all of Central America's presidents would meet in Nicaraguan capital Managua later in the day to discuss the crisis in Honduras that followed the early Sunday coup d'etat. He said he had called the emergency meeting of the Central American Integration System heads of state who aim to "fight ...

On June 20, 1979, international correspondent Bill Stewart was shot and killed by Nicaraguan government forces as he was reporting from Managua.

Express kidnappings have increased in the past year, with incidents involving Americans in several cities.