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President Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua's macho and mustachioed Sandinista commandante of the 1970s and '80s, may claim the mantle of revolutionary "new man," but Latin America's feminists insist Ortega is a dirty ...

The Sandinista government is betraying the hopes of its former supporters with an authoritarian crackdown Comments Conor Foley For those of a certain generation, Nicaragua's Sandinista movement has a real ...

Police raided the offices of two pressure groups, carting away computers and files, and a further 15 organisations are under investigation for alleged money-laundering and subversion.

Police raids of two non-governmental organizations critical of Nicaragua's leftist government provoked an outcry Sunday from opposition leaders who called them a throwback to dictatorship.

MANAGUA (Reuters) - Nicaragua's leftist President Daniel Ortega, a U.S. foe since the Cold War, said God was punishing the United States with the financial crisis for trying to impose its economic principles on poor countries.

"It's incredible that in the most powerful country in the world, which spends billions of dollars on brutal wars ... people do not have enough money to stay in their homes," former Marxist guerrilla Ortega said in a speech late on Thursday.

"God is punishing the United States," for imposing flawed economic policies on developing countries around the world, said Ortega, who first governed Nicaragua in the 1980s when his Sandinista government was locked in a war with U.S.-backed Contra rebels.

MONTREAL, Oct. 10 /CNW Telbec/ - Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns a newly-launched interior ministry investigation into 17 non-governmental organisations for alleged "embezzlement" and ...

Chamorro, who was born into a wealthy Nicaraguan family , received much of her early education in the U.S. states of Texas and Virginia.

With Nicaragua's traditional right-wing forces divided, President Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo are focusing their efforts on squelching opposition from their former comrades on the left, who they ...

A News item from Business Respect, Issue Number 138, dated 2 Oct 2008 Nicaragua's Comptroller General has said that no public officials have been punished for corruption during the first 18 months of President ...

A Nicaraguan journalist says the administration of President Daniel Ortega is persecuting his organization for its criticism of the government.

October 1, today, was the deadline for Costa Rica to ratify and join the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the United States .

Russia will help Nicaragua repair or update its aging military arsenal, most of which was furnished by the former Soviet Union in the 1980s, Moscow's envoy to Managua said.

Russia's ambassador to Nicaragua said Wednesday that his country will replace the Nicaraguan army's aging weaponry.

Chavez Arrives to $1Bln Welcome The Kremlin had a warm welcome waiting for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Thursday, in the form of a $1 billion loan for arms purchases for the Latin American leader who has ...

Ambassador Igor S. Kondrashev said there are no plans, however, to expand the Central American country's military arsenal.

Miguel d'Escoto is coming back to haunt Washington. The foreign affairs minister of Nicaragua for eleven years and a Sandinista priest, d'Escoto is now presiding over the 192-member body that is the United ...

United Nations, Sep 16 The 63rd UN General Assembly, presided over by Nicaraguan diplomat and priest Miguel D" Escoto, officially starts Tuesday an intensive program to extend until 2009.

By Eric Sabo MANAGUA - - Nicaraguan opposition lawmaker Victor Tinoco said that millions of dollars in Venezuelan aid is going to President Daniel Ortega rather than the country's poor.

In scathing criticism of Moscow, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Russia Thursday that its policies have put it on a path to isolation and irrelevance.

Russia offered aid to the leftist government of Nicaragua on Wednesday, a former Cold War ally, as part of a push to increase its influence in Latin America after years on the sidelines in the region.