Nicaragua

Obama urges new tack for Central America's drug war

2013-05-04 17:18:00

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — President Obama capped a three-day visit to Latin America on Saturday by urging the region's leaders to fight the drug war not with more guns or military aid but with greater investment in infrastructure, education and energy....

Obama, Central American presidents face a difficult agenda

2013-05-03 16:00:00

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Central American presidents will likely have a long list of gripes for their U.S. counterpart as they head into meetings with Barack Obama on Friday night. President Obama arrived in San Jose, Costa Rica, on Friday...

Eric Toth, on FBI's most wanted list, is arrested in Nicaragua

2013-04-23 13:37:00

A former elementary school teacher who had been on the run for nearly five years was arrested in Nicaragua over the weekend on suspicion of producing pornography of young boys, the FBI said Tuesday. Eric Justin Toth, now 31, was once a third-grade...

President Hugo Chavez dies at 58; hero to Venezuela's poor

2013-03-05 14:32:00

CARACAS, Venezuela —Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the charismatic socialist whose Bolivarian Revolution reduced poverty and galvanized anti-American sentiment across Latin America but left his nation deeply polarized and ever more dependent on...

Former members of Mexico student movement join Televisa talk show

2012-10-24 18:44:14

Accused Mexican drug ring posing as media on trial in Nicaragua

2012-09-21 11:23:23

U.S. to remove Iranian group Mujahedin Khalq from terrorist list

2012-09-21 15:13:52

Adolfo Calero dies at 80; tied to Iran-Contra scandal

2012-06-04 00:00:00

MEXICO CITY — Adolfo Calero, a former Coca-Cola executive who led the largest anti-Sandinista Contra rebel force in 1980s Nicaragua and served as one of its most articulate lobbyists in Washington, has died. He was 80. Calero died Saturday night in...

Tomas Borge dies at 81; last living founder of Sandinista movement

2012-05-02 00:00:00

MEXICO CITY — Tomas Borge, last living founder of Nicaragua's Sandinista movement and one of its most hard-line enforcers as it battled U.S.-backed forces for decades, has died. He was 81. In Nicaragua, the government of President Daniel Ortega...

A Western Hemisphere, minus the U.S.

2011-12-07 00:00:00

Iranian president expected to visit Latin America

2012-01-04 21:39:14

Last day to tell the federal government to tighten rules on tiger ownership

2011-10-21 16:34:57

Nicaraguan dancers get ready before the start of the "Joy for Life Carnival"(Carnaval Alegria por la Vida), in Managua.

2013-04-27 00:00:00

French DJ David Guetta, during a recent performance in Managua, Nicaragua, is in the lineup for the 2013 Ultra Dance Festival in Miami.

2013-03-15 11:09:32

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Chavez hold hands and wave on Jan. 10, 2007, in Managua, Nicaragua, during Ortega's inauguration.

2013-03-05 14:18:53