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Nicaragua

Journalists desperate for asylum caught up in US administration’s net
8:06
Israel orders Iranians to leave Tehran as it escalates strikes
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48:18
Remembering Nicaragua’s first woman president
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Lifestyle
Costa Rican coffee farms struggle with labor shortages because of immigration restrictions
5:03
Syrians react to ouster of President Bashar al-Assad
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48:55
In Costa Rica, there’s a new voice of Nicaraguan resistance
7:12
Not all countries satisfied with new climate finance deal
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49:39
Nicaragua’s ‘co-presidents’ set to further consolidate power
5:31
Latin American left reconsiders its ties with Maduro
4:20
Venezuelan migrants walk across the Rio Bravo towards the United States border to surrender to the border patrol, from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Oct. 13, 2022.
Migration
Nicaragua is helping tens of thousands of migrants reach the US
People demand the release of students who had taken refuge at the Jesus of Divine Mercy church amid a barrage of armed attacks, during a protest near the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, UNAN, in Managua, Nicaragua, Saturday, July 14, 2018.
Sacred Nation
Nicaragua seizes Jesuit university in latest clash between president and Catholic Church
Protesters yell from behind the roadblock they erected as they face off with security forces near the University Politecnica de Nicaragua, UPOLI, in Managua, Nicaragua
Leaders
‘I have to speak out’: Nicaraguan ambassador resigns, denounces govt as dictatorship
Passengers wait to board a plane for New York at the Charles de Gaulle airport, north of Paris
Top of The World
US opens borders to fully vaccinated travelers from a list of countries
A woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote during general elections in Managua, Nicaragua
Elections
Nicaragua’s Ortega leads in vote tally after jailing rivals
UN Human Rights Officer Charles Kwemoi, OHCHR regional representative Marcel Akpovo, EHRC Chief Commissioner Daniel Bekele and Director at the EHRC Albab Tesfaye, give a joint press conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Top of The World
Investigation into Ethiopian conflict reports human rights violations by all sides
A man is shown sitting cross-legged with dozens of cartoons on the floor all around him.
Global Cartoons
Pedro Molina’s fight for fair elections in Nicaragua through cartoons
Huge green pipes on sandy ground against a dark blue sky
The Big Fix
Latin American and Caribbean countries use volcanic landscapes to tap geothermal energy
A woman with a dog passes by graffiti depicting the Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and US President Donald Trump vandalized with paint in a suburb of Belgrade, Serbia, Nov. 3, 2020.
Global Politics
Trump’s use of the authoritarian playbook will have lasting consequences
A young girl wearing light blue clothing sips a juice while sitting inside a shelter near a yellow plastic chair
The Big Fix
In the face of climate change, children must build resilience to cope with PTSD
A woman protects her baby from the rain as Hurricane Iota approaches Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, Nov. 16, 2020.
Top of The World
Hurricane Iota lashes Central America; Trump considered Iran strike options; SpaceX Dragon docks at ISS
Teacher Ivania Guevara demonstrates during class to the children with hearing problems in the Melania Morales School in Managua, Nicaragua, Sept. 22, 2004. 
The origin of Nicaraguan Sign Language tells us a lot about language creation
A young boy is shown holding a large white sign that says, "Unite here! Local 11, Protect TPS!" on it.
Justice
Court: Trump can end temporary legal status for 4 countries
Sergio Armas, a Nicaraguan immigrant living in San Francisco, built an altar to the Virgin Mary in the corner of his yard after the coronavirus pandemic hit.
Pandemic disrupts remittances, leaving immigrants’ families without lifelines
Sudanese protesters chant slogans during a rally calling for the former ruling party to be dissolved and for ex-officials to be put on trial in Khartoum, Sudan, Oct. 21, 2019.
Protest
Protests that rocked The World in 2019
Unclassified papers
Spies and the White House have a history of running wild without congressional oversight
Cubans hold a sign of unity in red lettering on May Day.
Global Politics
Cuban president fires back at Trump on Venezuela and sanctions
child protesting in nicaragua
Global Politics
One year after Nicaraguan uprising, Ortega is back in control
A close-up photo of a mother and her daughter, who is wearing pink, at a bus station.
Immigration
Why are so many migrant families arriving at the southern US border?
Two young women carry a small coffin between them. Black and white photo.
Conflict & Justice
Why US-backed aid to Venezuela harkens back to a dark history of covert operations
three men in suits stand on the set of a television show
This Nicaraguan journalist is still reporting in exile
a woman with a sign
Women & Gender
Argentine actress’s #MeToo story provokes national outrage
A Venezuelan migrant girl wearing a pink sweater with a heart on it, is shown heading to the exit of a makeshift camp with her belongings in Bogota, Colombia.
Global Politics
Latin America grapples with migrant exodus that looks set to worsen in 2019
A woman wearing a blue bandana covering her face dressed in white holds her hands out to block a riot police.
Conflict
Migrant money could be keeping Nicaragua’s uprising alive
a nicarguan migrant woman and her daughter in mexico
Immigration
Violence drives increasing numbers of Nicaraguans to the US
Daniel Ortega speaks in front of a huge picture of Hugo Chavez
Global Politics
Venezuelan oil fueled the rise and fall of Nicaragua’s Ortega regime
A man wearing sunglasses and a blue T-shirt around his head speaks
Hiding in Nicaragua, Ortega’s battered opponents plan comeback
Masked police block the entrance of Divine Mercy Catholic Church in Managua, Nicaragua,
Nicaragua students freed from church after violent night; one killed
Horse on dry lake
Climate Change
Climate change is contributing to the migration of Central American refugees
People take part in a protest march to demand an end to violence in Managua, Nicaragua, April 28, 2018.
Conflict & Justice
Nicaragua protests threaten an authoritarian regime that looked like it might never fall
Migrant Caravan Denigrated by President Trump Arrives in California
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Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Trump Admin’s Third Travel Ban
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Demonstrators shout next to a burning barricade as they take part in a protest over a controversial reform to the pension plans of the Nicaraguan Social Security Institute (INSS) in Managua, Nicaragua April 21, 2018.
Conflict
At least 9 dead in Nicaragua as civil unrest continues
A woman holding a baby waits in line, above an open helping hand is extended.
Conflict
Make your way through the maze of seeking asylum in the US
The Eiffel tower is illuminated in green with the words "Paris Agreement is Done
Environment
With Nicaragua’s signature, US and Syria are the last holdouts from the Paris climate agreement
A boy holds two baby sea turtles.
Technology
What I learned from ‘Breaking Bad’ about saving sea turtles
Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega and first lady Rosario Murillo
Global Politics
Nicaragua’s husband-and-wife duo are likely to win elections as president and vice president
Migrants on dock at Capurgana, Colombia
Development
With Olympics over, Haitian workers are leaving Brazil for the US in big numbers
Maritza Blandón, a coffee grower in the mountains of Nicaragua, got her first pap smear at the age of 47. She tested posted for HPV and get treatment. Blandón is a single mother. If she died of cervical cancer, no one would be here to take care of her eig
Health
Nicaragua has a cervical cancer problem. A coffee farm is trying to help.
Teen pregnancy in Nicaragua is mostly caused by machismo culture and a lack of sex ed.
Health
Nicaragua’s teen pregnancy rate soars
Franci Machado brings her four-year-old daughter to work every day because she can't afford childcare. She says if she died because she couldn't get chemotherapy to treat her cancer no one would take care of her two children.
Health
Women in Nicaragua fight for the right to get abortions that could save their lives
Howler monkeys
Health
There’s a monkey die-off underway in Central America — and scientists are concerned it may be Zika
Nicaragua's La Cuneta Son Machín
Music
This Grammy-nominated band from Nicaragua is keeping it in the family
Cuban migrants say goodbye to their fellow compatriots in Costa Rica as they head to the airport for the first leg of their journey: a flight to El Salvador. Then they'll take a bus to the Guatemala-Mexico border and make their way to the US border.
Global Politics
Why six nations put their heads together and found a way to get nearly 8,000 stranded Cubans to the US
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Justice
The promise of justice is receding, Nicaraguan women say
The "Pearls of Pancasan" practice twice a week in their village in the northern mountains of Nicaragua
Education
Making ‘The Beautiful Game’ even more beautiful for these young Nicaraguans
Graffiti lead photo
Arts
This Nicaraguan woman answers sexism with spraypaint
HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co Ltd (HKND Group) chairman Wang Jing waves after attending a media conference in Managua December 23, 2014.
Economics
Chinese investments are pushing the Latin American economy back in time
Local residents wade into the shallow waters of Lake Nicaragua, the largest in Central America, with the volcanic island of Ometepe in the distance. Many are worried that the lake will be contaminated by the country's new $50 billion Chinese-backed Pacifi
Environment
China’s American canal could sacrifice Nicaragua’s great lake
Honduran musician Aurelio Martinez calls his latest album "pure Garifuna."
Music
Music is a ‘weapon to make change’ for this Garifuna guitar player and activist
El Salvador's defense minister, General Rafael Humberto Larios, speaks during a news conference in San Salvador in a 1990 file photo. Larios and eight other former Salvadoran soldiers were arrested in 2011 for suspected involvement in the 1989 killing of
Conflict
How justice for slain Americans took a backseat to Cold War politics