Nearly 96,000 Nicaraguans who arrived in the US under humanitarian parole, along with another 4,000 protected by TPS, live in ...

Arce and Daniel Ortega were close comrades during the 1979 Sandinista revolution that toppled United States-backed dictator ...

Invoking Christ and Castro as his socialist models, President Hugo Chavez began his third term Wednesday by declaring that socialism, not capitalism, is the only way forward for Venezuela and the ...

It’s been six months since Rosario Murillo became Nicaragua’s co-president, but it’s nothing worth celebrating. In fact, it’s a major step backward for Nicaraguan women.

Thousands of dissidents have fled Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua — and now, even those of us in exile no longer feel safe.

In 1984, Daniel Ortega was elected president and later sat down with our Mike Wallace. Ortega was voted out of office in 1990, but returned to power in 2006 promising to fight corruption.

Nicaragua’s upcoming election on November 7 is expected to hold no surprises, after strongman president Daniel Ortega spent most of the year tightening his grip on the country. With seven ...

Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega has tightened his grip on power by making dozens of arrests of political opponents, journalists and protesters. Sunday, 60 Minutes speaks to the wives of two ...

Meanwhile, Ortega has shunned foreign aid from the U.S. and European countries in favor of an estimated $500 million a year in handouts from Chávez. (He has also turned to Russia for help.) ...

1980: FSLN government led by Daniel Ortega nationalizes lands held by the Somoza family. 1982: US-sponsored attacks by Honduras-based contra rebels begin; state of emergency declared.