After months of lying low, Nicaragua’s contra rebels are on the attack once more. Last week, in action more vigorous than any seen in a year, the guerrillas staged a quick series of assaults that were ...

Most of the following is taken from my field journal, written while I was in Nicaragua (1985-87) as part of the Witness for Peace longterm team documenting the Contra War. Unfortunately, my government ...

MANAGUA, March 14 (Reuters) - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said the United States should pay $300 million to support former "Contra" rebels who Washington funded in the 1980s to fight the ...

Roberto Suazo Cordova, president of Honduras during the US-financed "Contra" war against Nicaragua of the 1980s, died on Saturday, officials said. Suazo, who was president from 1982 to 1986, was being ...

Prime minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Ralph Gonsalves, speaking in Nicaragua in 2022, points out that the United States “is 350 million people [and is] the strongest military force in the ...

MANAGUA (Reuters) - Daniel Ortega, the former Marxist rebel who confronted Washington when he first ruled Nicaragua in the 1980s, is again forging links with former Cold War allies as his second ...

SAN BENITO, Nicaragua -- As a young insurgent fighting to overturn Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista revolution during the 1980s, Martín Laguna chose the alias "Comandante Amargura," Spanish for ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ruling Sandinista party in ...

Nicaragua will hold closely watched elections today that could affect the course of relations with the United States, no matter who wins. President Daniel Ortega, 44, is running for re-election ...