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    • Sunday, 25 December, 2022
      News in-depth
      Nicaragua cracks down on Catholic Church

      Daniel Ortega’s regime targets last bastion of dissent with trial of outspoken bishop of Matagalpa

      Rolando Álvarez, bishop of Matagalpa and Esteli and a critic of President Ortega, celebrates mass online at a church where he was taking refuge in May
    • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
      News in-depthPress freedom
      Press freedoms erode under Central America’s strongmen

      Arrest of prominent journalist in Guatemala highlights the increasing threats from authoritarian rulers

      Journalist José Rubén Zamora at a court hearing in Guatemala City
    • Friday, 10 December, 2021
      Taiwan
      Nicaragua cuts diplomatic ties with Taiwan and recognises Beijing

      US blasts Managua’s decision while Taipei says it will halt all co-operation and aid projects

      Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo
    • Sunday, 7 November, 2021
      Ortega crushes opponents to win ‘pantomime’ Nicaragua election

      Biden condemns vote and hints at more sanctions against authoritarian regime

      Police officers walk in line while heading to cast their vote during the Nicaragua general election, at a polling station in Managua on Sunday
    • Monday, 1 November, 2021
      Nicaragua’s government accused by Facebook of running social media troll farm

      Company says it took down hundreds of accounts, pages and groups ahead of Sunday’s election

    • Friday, 25 June, 2021
      ObituaryEnrique Bolaños
      Enrique Bolaños, president and businessman, 1928-2021

      Nicaraguan leader who battled corruption but failed to curb the country’s inequality

    • Saturday, 12 June, 2021
      News in-depth
      Daniel Ortega tightens his grip as Nicaragua prepares for election

      Veteran Latin American strongman has arrested opponents as he ensures a fourth presidential term

    • Thursday, 22 April, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Central America needs a bold gesture from the US

      Tackling soaring migration means helping to alleviate its root causes

      Honduran asylum seekers wait to register at a migrant camp on the US-Mexico border
    • Tuesday, 13 April, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Latin America needs better leaders after Covid

      Populists of the left and right will not help the world’s worst-hit region

    • Tuesday, 29 December, 2020
      Daniel Ortega tightens screws on opponents as Nicaragua polls loom

      President pushes through new laws and pressures media and human rights groups

    • Sunday, 4 October, 2020
      Nicaragua raises alarm with repressive draft laws

      Critics accuse Ortega of trying to stamp out resistance ahead of elections next year

    • Saturday, 3 October, 2020
      HTSI
      HTSI editor’s letter: fashion, art and undercrackers

      This issue unveils a Roman conquest, a new gallery and made-to-measure pants

      Dior 2021 Cruise collection
    • Thursday, 1 October, 2020
      HTSI
      Destination Nicaragua: a country on the brink of extraordinary change

      This little-known jewel in Latin America has been a no-no on the travel advisory list since 2018. It shouldn’t be

      Colonial-style buildings in León
    • Friday, 17 April, 2020
      Coronavirus
      The ‘Ostrich Alliance’: leaders denying coronavirus threat

      Four strongmen stand apart while the rest of the world takes drastic action to stop the pandemic spreading

    • Friday, 13 March, 2020
      Latin America holidays
      A beacon of hope on Nicaragua’s Emerald Coast

      Rancho Santana, a cattle ranch turned laidback resort, is attempting to draw visitors back to the country’s Pacific beaches

    • Friday, 6 March, 2020
      Obituary
      Ernesto Cardenal, Marxist poet and priest, 1925-2020

      A revolutionary Nicaraguan mystic with his feet firmly on the ground

      FILE PHOTO: Poet and former Sandinista priest Ernesto Cardenal speaks during a meeting in his house in Managua, Nicaragua August 29, 2008. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas/File Photo
    • Monday, 20 January, 2020
      US immigration
      Mexican police clash with Central American caravan

      Crackdown is aimed at staving off Trump threat of tariffs on exports

      A Central American migrant - part of a caravan of mostly Hondurans travelling to the US- is tackeld by a member of Mexico's National Guaed after crossing the Suichate River, the natural border between Tecun Uman in Guatemala and Ciudad Hidalgo in Mexico, on January 20, 2020. - Hundreds of Central Americans from a new migrant caravan tried to enter Mexico by force Monday by crossing the river that divides the country from Guatemala, prompting the National Guard to fire tear gas, an AFP correspondent said. (Photo by Johan ORDONEZ / AFP) (Photo by JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
    • Monday, 1 April, 2019
      Press freedom
      Journalists under attack: press coalition highlights ‘most urgent’ cases

      Group of leading news organisations releases its second list

    • Thursday, 17 January, 2019
      Nicaragua set for crisis talks to avoid expulsion from regional group

      Mexico agrees to mediate as veteran rebel leader Daniel Ortega faces biggest challenge

      Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua's president, arrives for the inauguration of Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela's president, not pictured, in Caracas, Venezuela, on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. In his next term, Maduro must manage to feed a hungry nation, kick-start production at state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA and fend off creditors threatening to snatch up assets abroad. Photographer: Carlos Becerra/Bloomberg
    • Sunday, 30 September, 2018
      World
      Nicaragua issues new warning to protesters

      Government declares demonstrations illegal and vows to prevent more violence

      Riot police throw a sound granade towards demonstrators during a protest against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government in Managua, Nicaragua September 29, 2018. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas
    • Wednesday, 5 September, 2018
      News in-depthWorld
      UN under siege in Central America

      Crises in Guatemala and Nicaragua pose test for global agencies as well as Donald Trump

      A masked demonstrator holds a homemade mortar, while taking part in a march against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government in Managua, on September 2, 2018. - At least two people were injured on Sunday, when alleged paramilitaries fired against an opposition march, which ended up in violence in eastern Managua. (Photo by INTI OCON / AFP)INTI OCON/AFP/Getty Images
    • Monday, 3 September, 2018
      Jude Webber
      A rebuilt Managua cannot escape its violent past

      Brutal protests give young Nicaraguans a painful reminder of their capital’s history

      A woman holds onto an artificial Christmas tree amid the earth quake devastation in her neighborhood in Managua, Nicaragua. 1972.
    • Wednesday, 29 August, 2018
      Human rights
      UN report calls for ‘urgent action’ on Nicaragua human rights crisis
      A masked demonstrator holds a homemade weapon during a protest against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government in Managua, Nicaragua August 18, 2018. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas
    • Wednesday, 22 August, 2018
      The Big ReadJude Webber
      Nicaragua: Daniel Ortega’s last stand?

      As deadly protests against the president continue, critics say he now resembles the dictator he replaced

      TOPSHOT - An anti-government protester fires a home-made mortar during a march dubbed "Here nothing is normal", in Managua, on August 18, 2018. - After four months of protests Nicaraguans demand president Daniel Ortega's resignation. (Photo by INTI OCON / AFP)INTI OCON/AFP/Getty Images
    • Friday, 17 August, 2018
      World
      Anti-Ortega protests leave Nicaraguans living under the volcano

      Fragile calm returns after roadblocks are broken up but few believe unrest is over

      A masked protester shoots off his homemade mortar in the Monimbo neighborhood during clashes with police, in Masaya, Nicaragua, Saturday, June 2, 2018. More than 110 people have been killed in Nicaragua during clashes between forces loyal to President Daniel Ortega and opposition groups (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
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