The first woman to lead a Central American country, she served in the 1990s after the nation had been shaken by political ...

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, an unlikely leader whose rise was fueled by her husband's murder, championed regional ...

Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into national politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned ...

Latin America’s first elected female president won a surprise victory over Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega and demobilized ...

The systematic and relentless persecution orchestrated by the Ortega-Murillo regime has led to the closure, confiscation, and ...

Despite a flurry of positive reports in the travel press, U.S. officials say Americans should avoid Nicaragua because it’s an ...

Violeta Chamorro, whose 1990 upset victory made her Nicaragua's first female president — and ushered peace into civil ...

A quick, three-hour flight was all it took to trade in North America’s unpredictable spring for the steady warmth of ...

On Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast, where the mouth of the Escondido River and the Caribbean Sea meet, is Bluefields, Nicaragua.

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the Nicaraguan leader whose rule in the 1990s marked the end of the country’s civil war and who ...

The Department of Homeland Security is notifying hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans that ...

Dive into one of the most ambitious and ultimately failed infrastructure projects of the modern era , Nicaragua’s plan to build its own canal. With global shipping traffic growing at an explosive rate ...