21 Feb 2010 1715MST Summary: Nicaragua’s unicameral Congress unanimously approved a package backed by President Ortega that turns the country in a populist direction.
21 Feb 2010 178MST Summary: Anti-US hobnobbing between Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is another indication of changes Latin America that align against US interests.
04 Nov 2009 2141MST Seventeen years after the civil war between the Contras and Sandanistas, political divisions still run dangerously deep in Nicaragua, leading a potentially violent political deadlock.
04 Nov 2009 2119MST Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolanos has told US Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld that Nicaragua would completely eliminate a stockpile of hundreds of surface-to-air missiles with no expectation of compensation from the United States.