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, outside ...

Daniel Ortega led a leftist revolution against dictatorship in the 1970s. Decades later, he has become the very thing he once opposed. With his wife by his side, he’s created a dynastic regime marked ...

Nicaragua faces a widespread and intensifying political crackdown under President Daniel Ortega, as international ...

How Daniel Ortega tossed democracy aside to maintain power in Nicaragua 13:38. Last November, a country with a long, complicated history with the U.S. held its presidential election.

Daniel Ortega was never the most charismatic Sandinista leader. He was not a great military strategist; his younger brother, Humberto, who went on to become defense minister, was known for that.

Effective Sept. 6, deportation protections for an estimated 72,000 Hondurans and 4,000 Nicaraguans who have been living and ...

Nicaragua's leader Daniel Ortega says he was overwhelmingly elected president for a fourth consecutive term Sunday. But critics, including leaders around the world, say the elections were a sham.

More than 200 Nicaraguan political prisoners were freed and flown to the United States on Thursday, nearly all of them prominent government critics jailed in President Daniel Ortega's crackdown on ...

A U.N.-backed panel on Thursday accused the Nicaraguan government, led by Socialist President Daniel Ortega, of human rights abuses “tantamount to crimes against humanity." ...

Daniel Ortega, the president of Nicaragua, deported 222 political prisoners to the United States and they were stripped of their citizenship.

Know more • Formally, two different legal measures grant President Daniel Ortega and his wife the consolidation of power mentioned in this article — which the UN press office said "will have ...