More than 4,000 people have been inducted into the force over just three days this week across the Central American nation, ...

The Nicaraguan government has sworn in over 1,400 masked civilians to form part of a new volunteer police unit, sparking ...

Nicaraguan authorities swore in more than 1,400 masked civilians to form part of a new "volunteer" police force on Friday, ...

President-elect Donald Trump has long said he wanted to deport millions of migrants but never deported more than 350,000 a ...

They wear white T-shirts, black pants, black shoes, and identical black polyester masks to conceal their faces.

Nicaragua “is a democracy that has been completely annihilated,” he stated during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee ...

A worsening crackdown on independent media by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government saw 46 journalists forced into exile and several arrested last year, a Costa Rica-based NGO reported ...

The official government newspaper announced on Jan. 8 the “voluntary dissolution” of 11 organizations including the Dominican Nuns Foundation of Nicaragua.

Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for a controversial third six-year term as Venezuela's president on January 10, amid widespread ...

Nicaragua has become one of the 20 most dangerous countries in the world for Christians, according to the International ...

Daniel Ortega is inaugurated as president of Nicaragua for the first time on this day in 1985. Firefighting helicopters ...