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 [...]

Amnesty International today expressed concern that the Nicaraguan Supreme Court continues to delay its judgment on the legality of new criminal laws on abortion which entered into force in 2008.
The Court was due to issue a judgment in May 2009 on the constitutionality of a complete ban on abortion, even when the life of the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]