The Latest Breaking News from Nicaragua

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Nicaragua severs diplomatic ties with Israel over Gaza conflict, accusing Israel of genocide. International tensions rise.

Nicaraguan guerrilla fighter Humberto Ortega, a Sandinista defense minister who later in life became a critic of his older brother President Daniel Ortega, has died at age 77

Up until July, over 5 million migrants are estimated to have entered the United States irregularly through Nicaragua in the last two years

CHNV program, which allows migrants from Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela to receive work permits, resumed in August after being suspended for frauds

Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center received an investigative demand over any ties with the sponsorship program allowing people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to migrate legally to the U.S.

The Nicaraguan government recently shut down more than 1,500 nonprofits – many of them civic and religious groups doing humanitarian work in a country long mired in political violence, economic upheaval and social strife.

As President Daniel Ortega has moved aggressively to silence critics of his administration in Nicaragua, faith leaders have denounced their surveillance, harassment and threats at the hands of the state

Nicaragua said Tuesday it was revoking the citizenship and seizing the property of 135 people who were expelled from the country last week after serving prison sentences in a government crackdown on dissent