Before the assassination of her husband, the editor of the only independent newspaper in Nicaragua, Violeta Chamorro was ...

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

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

Violeta Chamorro, who brought peace to Nicaragua after years of war and was the first woman elected president in the Americas ...

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

Nicaragua's new President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro flashes vee signs as outgoing President Daniel Ortega applauds after ...

Las Vegas police are investigating whether the synthetic drug Spice contributed to a gunman shooting and killing a gym ...

As we first reported last October, Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega is not the fatigue-wearing revolutionary that you may remember. He's now 76 and rarely seen. Still, many Nicaraguans fear he is more ...

Violent crackdowns on political dissent by Daniel Ortega's government, which has since expanded to a campaign aimed at "incapacitating any kind of opposition in the long term," have been subject ...

Since taking office in 2007, Daniel Ortega has funneled more than $4 billion in Venezuelan petro-dollars through 'Albanisa', a spider's web of companies controlled by the Sandinista Front ...

Daniel Ortega, a 34-year-old member of the Las Vegas Athletic Club, killed one person and wounded three more when he opened fire inside the gym on Friday afternoon, according to police.

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