Amid celebrations to mark the 30th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution in July, Ortega said that the country should end term limits, as “all should have the right to stand for re-election ...

Mónica Baltodano was a guerrilla commander in Nicaragua’s Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and participated in the country’s 1979 Revolution. She has a powerful presence and a ...

The Nicaraguan parliament announced that it had approved the constitutional reform granting full powers to Daniel Ortega and ...

Managua expelled Brazil's Ambassador for not attending the celebrations of the Sandinista revolution's 45th anniversary and Brazil responded accordingly. Ortega insisted the ”servile“ Lula was ...

They draw comparisons to the Sandinista Revolution which has been marked every year on 19 July since the 1979 overthrow of dictator Anastasio Somoza. Getty Images Back then, Daniel Ortega (right ...

Ortega, was one of the nine 'comandantes' who led the Sandinista Revolution which in 1979 toppled the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Anastsio Somoza. He ruled Nicaragua between 1985 and 1990 ...

In a speech on July 19, the anniversary of the Sandinista revolution of 1979, Ortega sought to turn the tables, accusing his opponents of being responsible for the violence, naming a list of dead ...

It’s 25 years since Nicaragua’s Sandinista revolution catapulted Central America into the headlines. It drew fierce opposition from Washington; but adoration from tens of thousands of ...

She was long associated with the Sandinista revolution. Recent years have been different, however. She has spoken out against repression by the Ortega dictatorship. And just now, she has filmed an ...

narrating the rise and destruction of successive waves of indigenous and colonial cultures in Latin America and recounting the events of the Sandinista revolution, including a fierce yet astonishingly ...

Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega's constitutional reforms, now approved, extend presidential control by formalizing the role of vice president as 'co-president' and enable unlimited vice president ...