Barbara Jean Caspersen was born on April 15, 1948, to Barbara Ruth Ward and Gustav Kuper at the Clínica Bíblica in San José, Costa Rica. She spent much of her childhood in Managua, Nicaragua, where ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Jairo Bonilla was inside a Managua seminary last spring during a break in Catholic Church-mediated talks to try to end Nicaragua’s bloody political crisis when two fellow students ...

Reporting from Managua, Nicaragua — Along Hugo Chavez Boulevard in what might pass for downtown Managua, there stands a curious mini-forest of gigantic fake trees. They are saffron in color, each a ...

Reporting from Managua, Nicaragua — More than three months of political turmoil, demonstrations, looting and street battles have convulsed the Central American nation of Nicaragua. President Daniel ...

Residents of Managua, Nicaragua, have a unique system for finding their way around. They don't use street names or addresses, or even geographic conventions like North or South. The haphazard city ...

Managua, Nicaragua – Martha Velasquez was an ordinary 12-year-old schoolgirl until February when she was raped by her cousin’s boyfriend. The 34-year-old grabbed her as she went to buy plantain chips, ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — In Nicaragua, where Marxist dogma has given way to a free market economy, the red-and-black flags of the Sandinista revolution have been supplanted by the pink and baby blue ...