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By Steve Stecklow MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- With just 300 or so Muslims in all of Nicaragua, it became an instant mystery here when a big new mosque suddenly seemed to spring up recently in a residential neighborhood.

A late-season hurricane ravaged parts of Central America Sunday as floods and landslides killed at least 91 in El Salvador and thousands were left homeless in Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is boosting, with Venezuelan support, food self-sufficiency and other development projects within the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas , hence the visit by a government delegation led by Venezuela's Deputy Foreign Minister Francisco Arias Cardenas.

Political maneuvering by President Daniel Ortega and six Sandinista judges on the Supreme Court to eliminate a constitutional term limit created a political crisis that opposition leaders and the U.S. ambassador said was undermining the countrya s democracy.

Hurricane Ida weakened to a tropical storm after washing ashore today in eastern Nicaragua, where it is forecast to dump enough rain to unleash life-threatening floods and mudslides, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Archbishop Leopoldo Brenes Solorzano and Auxiliary Bishop Silvio Jose Baez Ortega of Managua have decried violence at a recent protest against the US embassy in Nicaragua.

The opposition shut down Nicaragua's legislature Tuesday to protest a court ruling that clears the way for President Daniel Ortega to seek re-election in 2011.

The scene outside the U.S. Embassy last week illustrated fraying tensions in this capital where the Sandinista government has been maneuvering for reelection: Agitated pro-government youths hurled fireworks, rocks and eggs at the embassy grounds and shouted ``Death to the Yankees! Death to the empire!'' The following day, a Sandinista mob ...

Horrified by the excesses of dictatorship, Latin Americans discarded the strongman model at the end of the 20th century and limited politicians' time in power.

"They want to keep all the gains, and give nothing away themselves": this from an article in the Guardian describing the dwindling hopes of Barack Obama's engagement policy with Iran.

MANAGUA: Opposition lawmakers in Nicaragua are trying to block a bid by President Daniel Ortega to be allowed to run for re-election in 2011 with a bill that seeks to halt a Supreme Court ruling on the issue.

Correa's visit to the Kremlin was the first in the history of diplomatic relations between Ecuador and Russia and yielded a strategic partnership agreement that covers politics, trade, culture, tourism, sports, science, technology and the environment.

Thousands of Nicaraguans pelted the United States Embassy here with rocks and homemade explosives on Thursday, demanding that the ambassador be expelled for criticizing a ruling that allows President Daniel Ortega to seek re-election . Mr.

The Nicaraguan Congress on Wednesday narrowly rejected an initiative to force a debate on whether to annul a hotly disputed court ruling allowing President Daniel Ortega to seek re-election. The vote in the National Assembly's controlling commission went along party lines with congressional leader Rene Nunez - a member of Ortega's leftist ...

A surprise attack by masked youths who pelted Supreme Court magistrate Francisco Rosales with eggs is the latest in a series of guerrilla-style protests from a growing underground movement against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega.

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TODAY marks the 26th anniversary of the United States military invasion of Grenada - the smallest nation to have become such a victim of the enormous military might of superpower USA.

The United States on Thursday expressed concern about a Nicaraguan court ruling that opens the way for leftist President Daniel Ortega to seek re-election in the 2011 election.

You all remember Daniel Ortega. The vice-president of the Nicaraguan bishops' conference is stating that a recent Supreme Court decision could pave the way for President Daniel Ortega to take the role of a dictator.

Managua, Oct 23 Nicaraguans are undergoing a tense situation, after threats to President Daniel Ortega''s government by opposition sectors of turning to violence to try to reverse a Supreme Court of Justice decision.