Nicaragua News

Maryknoll Sister Rita Owczarek, a long-time nurse, health educator and missioner in Nicaragua, died last Sunday in the Maryknoll Sisters Residential Care in New York.

Donations to Roots of Change can be made to: Roots of Change Foundation PO Box 92 St. Albert, AB T8N 1N2 Or inquiries can be forwarded to Raymonde Schile at Raymonde.Schile@rootsofchange.ca.

Bus passengers in Nicaragua's capital are trading in their coins for plastic cards as the country implements its first electronic-payment system for public transit.

The faces of children who are being sponsored through Compassion International -- and of the children who could be sponsored -- remind people, like Christy Jordan of Madison, Ala., of her own children.

Canal company says its Nicaragua megaproject is a private endeavor that will not seek any government funding.

In this June 7, 2013 photo, people push a boat into Lake Nicaragua, near Granada, Nicaragua.

When I was in Nicaragua in 2011, I had a friend who was renting a room with her boyfriend in Managua.

Managua, Nicaragua's capital. A 6.5 magnitude earthquake hit off the Nicaraguan coast about 50 miles from the capital on Saturday.

The quake, which occurred about 11:35 a.m. local time, was centered about 31 miles west of Masachapa and 56 miles west-southwest of Managua at a depth of 22.3 miles, the USGS said.

IHG announces the signing of two new Holiday Inn Express hotels in Managua, Nicaragua and Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck on Saturday off the Pacific coast of the central American nation of Nicaragua, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage.

Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega, left, and Chinese businessman Wang Jing shake hands before signing a concession agreement for the construction of a multibillion-dollar canal at the Casa de los Pueblos in Managua, Nicaragua, Friday, June 14, 2013.

Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega, left, and Chinese businessman Wang Jing shake hands before signing a concession agreement for the construction of a multibillion-dollar canal at the Casa de los Pueblos in Managua, Nicaragua, Friday, June 14, 2013.

Theater and storytelling can allow communities to resolve conflict, reframe issues, and envision and ultimately determine a different future.

Two fishermen lift their net in Lake Managua, near Managua, Nicaragua. The Central American goverment is trying to revive a centuries-old dream of building an inter-ocean canal.

For hundreds of years, explorers and governments have dreamed of a waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific.

For hundreds of years, explorers and governments have dreamed of a waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific.

Nicaragua 's parliament is due to vote on Thursday on one of the biggest infrastructure projects in Latin America's history - a trans-oceanic canal that is to be built and run by a Chinese company.

In a strongly worded manifesto published today in national newspapers, 21 political and civil society organizations are accusing President Ortega of betraying Nicaragua by using the canal project to privatize Nicaragua's natural resources and create a private enclave in the middle of country-one that future governments won't be able to touch.

Oja cigars are a relatively new boutique blend created by Luis Garcia and manufactured by Kiki Berger in Esteli, Nicaragua.