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Nicaragua ( ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua ( ), is the largest country in the Central American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south.
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — A Nicaraguan TV channel is reporting that the brother of a top Colombian guerrilla leader has arrived in Managua, where president Daniel Ortega had granted him political asylum earlier this month.
Nicaraguan TV Channel 4 reports that Ruben Dario Granda arrived Wednesday night with his wife and son. They had been staying at the Nicaraguan embassy in Bogota since the end of May.Granda is the brother of Rodrigo Granda, known as the "foreign minister" of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia , or FARC. He arrived at the Sandino airport on a commercial flight.Ruben Granda was detained in April by Colombian authorities, who said e-mails found on a laptop belonging to slain rebel leader Raul Reyes made reference to him. A judge later released Granda for lack of evidence....A Nicaraguan court has again postponed a hearing for American Jason Puracal, who is accused of laundering money for organized crime.The 33-year-old man from Washingt...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — The Nicaraguan army detained two foreigners at the border with Costa Rica on Monday, and Panamanian officials said they are investigating w...
U.S. diplomats accuse Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government of taking bribes from drug traffickers and receiving "suitcases full of cash" from Venezuelan o...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua's four opposition parties are asking the Organization of American States to intervene in their power struggle with leftist Presid...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua's leftist leader has threatened to dissolve congress as a political struggle rages over presidential powers and term limits.At a ...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Led by two Supreme Court justices, supporters of Nicaragua's leftist president threw rocks and fireworks at a hotel where opposition lawmak...
Costa Rica accused Nicaragua on Tuesday of flagrantly breaching international law by putting troops on disputed land along the river that forms the two nations' bord...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Two foreigners detained in Nicaragua have been identified as the American couple wanted in Panama in the death of a U.S. woman, and police ...
The sun shines down on lush orange mangos hanging from trees that line the road for miles, as farmers sit behind small wooden stands, selling fresh fruit to passersb...
A former vice president in Nicaragua's Sandinista government said Wednesday the movement received crucial financial aid to oust a dictator from Venezuelan President ...
Federal prosecutors say a Delaware father accused of obtaining a fraudulent $250,000 loan and fleeing to Nicaragua with his three daughters is now charged with paren...
At least four Nicaraguan police officers have been injured in clashes with demonstrators protesting President Daniel Ortega's bid to win re-election.Protesters threw...
Teary-eyed Sandinista leaders bade farewell to the "older brother" of their revolution at a dramatic midnight funeral and President Daniel Ortega declared three days...
Dozens of previously dismissed radio signals were actually credible transmissions from Amelia Earhart, according to a new study of the alleged post-loss signals from...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua's attorney general has dropped a complaint against President Daniel Ortega and other former Sandinista officials in the killings ...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — The head of Nicaragua's navy says Mexico's La Familia cartel is moving heavily into Central America and dominates much of the drug trade th...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- A Nicaraguan newspaper says one of its reporters has fled to the United States following what she described as threats from supporters of the r...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaraguan Supreme Court justices who support President Daniel Ortega picked seven lawyers from Ortega's Sandinista party Wednesday to repl...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Several banana workers denied Friday they were part of a conspiracy to defraud Dole Foods Co. by falsely claiming in a damage lawsuit to ha...
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