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Nicaragua

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
An array of bitcoins
Top of The World
El Salvador becomes the first country in the world to make bitcoin legal tender
three men in suits stand on the set of a television show
This Nicaraguan journalist is still reporting in exile
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
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
Masked police block the entrance of Divine Mercy Catholic Church in Managua, Nicaragua,
Nicaragua students freed from church after violent night; one killed
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
The Krump family
Global Politics
This Arizona family is moving to Nicaragua to get away from Trump’s America
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
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
Democrat Bill de Blasio (2nd R) hugs his wife Chirlane McCray (R) and children Chiara and Dante
Global Politics
New York has a new mayor and the whole world is watching
Nicaraguans mourn death of Sandinista founder Tomás Borge
Business, Economics and Jobs
As Spain’s economy sags, professionals look abroad for work
Development & Education
Nicaragua’s gold mining industry is booming, boosting country’s economy
Development & Education
Technology and the developing world
Nicaraguan Canal
Arts, Culture & Media
Nicaragua Fast-Tracking Bill to Authorize Chinese Company’s Canal to Compete with Panama
Chinese Plan for Inter-Oceanic Canal Across Nicaragua Echoes British Disaster of Long Ago
Arts, Culture & Media
Nicaragua: Uncovering a Ghost Town and the Dreams it Buried
Global Politics
The Twisted Legacy of Sandinista Founder Tomás Borge
Nicaragua’s Rum Reservoir
Global Politics
Nicaragua Cashing in on Rising Gold Prices
Global Politics
Iran-Contra Remembered
Arts, Culture & Media
Nicaragua in the years since the revolution
Destitution and Deforestation in Nicaragua
Global Politics
Nicaragua and Costa Rica battle over border
Arts, Culture & Media
Nicaragua’s Perrozompopo