General Anastasio Somoza, drove down from their hilltop palaces in bulletproof sedans. At the National Palace, Nicaragua’s Constituent Assembly awaited them with the product of five months ...

Nicaragua is a volcanic nation, geologically and politically. Forty years ago, seemingly out of nowhere, a series of popular eruptions shook the entrenched regime of Anastasio Somoza, who fell ...

“People are disappearing. In the capital, in smaller cities. At times in bars or nightclubs, under the influence of alcohol, someone might say the wrong thing,” said a young Nicaraguan woman who asked ...

The 79-year-old Ortega has ruled Nicaragua for 28 years, having first come to power in 1979 following the fall of dictator Anastasio Somoza ... in human rights under Ortega's rule.

From the Palace eminence on a dead volcano he could see all Managua lying flat under ... Somoza. commander of 2,500 Guardia Nacional. Sandino had said: “There are now three powers in Nicaragua ...

The force was created under a constitutional reform ... guerrilla hero who helped oust the US-backed Somoza regime, and returned to power in 2007. Nicaragua has jailed hundreds of opponents ...

Montealegre nevertheless ran under the ILP's banner in the 2011 ... part of Nicaragua's political culture since the Somoza dictatorship. Nicaragua's Private Enterprise Council and the American ...

Latin America was shaken by a series of dictatorships during the 1970s, all protected or built, better, under a revolution ... ending the Somoza dynasty in Nicaragua. Somoza fled the country ...