MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Magistrate Sergio Cuarezma, a member of the Supreme Court, spent Oct. 19 like any other Monday, quietly catching up on e-mail and fingering through stacks of rulings by sunlight when the court’s power went down, as it tends to do without explanation here in Central America’s poorest country.
Despite lingering in his office [...]

MANAGUA – Followers of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, leader of the official Sandinista party, attacked dissident Sandinistas who were protesting on the one-year anniversary of nationwide municipal elections they consider “fraudulent.”
The brawl took place outside the Supreme Electoral Council, or CSE, located in front of the central headquarters of the national police in Managua.
The protesters [...]

On October 20, the Nicaraguan Supreme Court removed a constitutional barrier to the re-election of leftist president Daniel Ortega in the 2011 elections. The court acted on removing the restriction after a petition from Ortega and a group of mayors was delivered to the court a week earlier.
By ruling to remove the barrier, the [...]

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua said Saturday that he sees no need to apologize for criticizing a court ruling opening the way for the possible re-election of leftist President Daniel Ortega.
“I did not do anything for me to apologize for,” Robert J. Callahan said a day after being forced to flee a [...]

MANAGUA — The US ambassador to Nicaragua said on Sunday he plans to stay put in the Central American nation despite violent protests demanding that he go home for allegedly meddling in domestic politics.
“I am staying here to work as US ambassador (as) we have a strong and constant commitment to the Nicaraguan people,” Ambassador [...]

MANAGUA, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) — Nicaraguan parliament member Jacinto Suarez Wednesday assumed the one-year presidency of the Central American Parliament (Parlacen) at a ceremony held in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Suarez said he would give continuity to the integration policies of the regional forum from a global and not purely commercial reality, according to information reaching here.
Suarez, [...]

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The Nicaraguan Congress on Wednesday narrowly rejected an initiative to force a debate on whether to annul a hotly disputed court ruling allowing President Daniel Ortega to seek re-election.
The vote in the National Assembly’s controlling commission went along party lines with congressional leader Rene Nunez — a member of Ortega’s leftist Sandinista [...]

The government of Nicaragua is rejecting what it calls U.S. “meddling” in its internal affairs, after the U.S. State Department released a statement Thursday saying it is “very concerned” about last week’s controversial ruling by Sandinista judges to overturn a constitutional ban on presidential re-election.
In a letter to José Miguel Insulza, secretary general of the [...]

Florida judge has said a $97 million judgment against U.S. food giant Dole and Dow Chemical Co. cannot be enforced because the Nicaraguan court that issued it neither had jurisdiction nor met international legal standards.
A trial court in Chinandega, Nicaragua, had awarded the money in 2005 to 150 Nicaraguan citizens who said they worked on [...]

WASHINGTON: The United States yesterday expressed concern about a Nicaraguan court ruling that opens the way for leftist President Daniel Ortega to seek re-election in the 2011 election.
Nicaragua’s Supreme Court on Monday issued a ruling that helped to clear the way for Ortega to run for another term, following a petition from him and a [...]

MIAMI — A Florida judge has said a $97 million judgment against U.S. food giant Dole and Dow Chemical Co. cannot be enforced because the Nicaraguan court that issued it neither had jurisdiction nor met international legal standards.
A trial court in Chinandega, Nicaragua, had awarded the money in 2005 to 150 Nicaraguan citizens who said [...]

Nicaragua’s long-divided opposition movements are starting to show signs of union in defense of the country’s institutional democracy, following a highly suspect ruling by Sandinista Supreme Court magistrates Monday to allow their leader, President Daniel Ortega, to seek re-election in 2011.
The ruling by the six Sandinista magistrates of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court [...]

As political tensions build in anticipation of March 7 regional elections in the North and South Atlantic Autonomous Regions (RAAN and RAAS, respectively), indigenous separatist leaders on the northern Caribbean coast are insisting there will be no elections at all.
In a recent letter addressed to President Daniel Ortega and Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) president Roberto [...]

Under torrential rains, hundreds of Miskito separatists from rural communities in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) trekked through the mud to the regional capital of Bilwi in anticipation of Monday’s march to assert their independence claims as the Communitarian Nation of the Moskitia.
By 5:30 p.m. Sunday an estimated 1,800 separatists had gathered in town [...]

Costa Rica’s center-right Social Christian Unity Party (La Unidad) moved to forge ahead toward the February 2010 elections Saturday, choosing the party’s president, Luis Fishman, to be its new candidate just two weeks after a San José court sentenced its long-time leader and earlier contender, former President Rafael Angel Calderdón, to prison for corruption.
“I accept [...]

Juan Barahona, a fire-brand union leader was replaced by attorney Rodil Rivera, one of Zelaya’s closest aides at the start of a decisive round of talks to find a solution to the political and institutional crisis of the country since the elected president was ousted in a midnight coup and flown out of the country [...]

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Representatives of ousted President Manuel Zelaya and interim President Roberto Micheletti met Wednesday for the first time since July, but if and when an agreement will be reached is still very much up in the air.
Negotiations in July led to the proposed San José Agreement drafted by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias. [...]

The area’s investment in military hardware in the last five years has almost doubled from 24 billion US dollars in 2003 to 47 billion last year according to Colombian political analyst Javier Loaiza.
During a forum in Prague, Loaiza pointed out that while Colombia and Mexico invest in arms to combat domestic problems generated by drug [...]

A raid in a drug-riddled area north of San José was conducted by government officials on Wednesday, two days after a 78-year-old man was shot and killed when caught in a drug-related firefight.
The operation involved some 80 officials from the Public Security Ministry, the San José Municipality, the Health Ministry, the Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ) [...]

An international delegation arrived in Honduras Wednesday for talks to resolve the political crisis in the Central American country in the wake of a June coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
Hopes were high for the talks led by the Organisation of American States. The OAS sent a foreign ministers mission headed by OAS Secretary-General Jose [...]