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Jesus Ignacio Flores started working when he was 16, laboring long hours on construction sites and in the fields of his country's biggest sugar plantation.
Daniel Ortega was sworn in Tuesday for his third 5-year term as president of Nicaragua, shrugging off opposition complaints his re-election was illegal and vowing to govern with moderation.
Newly re-elected President Daniel Ortega said Tuesday there won't be any dramatic changes in his new administration and that he will continue taking Nicaragua on a path that is "Christian, socialist and in solidarity."
Religious processions and chants have become common at the re-election campaign rallies of leftist Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who is highlighting his Christianity in his bid for re-election.
Nicaraguan Supreme Court justices who support President Daniel Ortega picked seven lawyers from Ortega's Sandinista party Wednesday to replace opposition judges who have been boycotting court sessions.
Authorities said they recovered three more bodies Tuesday on property owned by a jailed U.S. man who prosecutors say has confessed to killing five fellow Americans to get their money and property in a Panamanian resort area.
Former President Arnoldo Aleman accepted his party's nomination for president Sunday, setting up a likely showdown next year with his longtime political rival, current President Daniel Ortega.
Nicaragua's leftist leader has threatened to dissolve congress as a political struggle rages over presidential powers and term limits.
Nicaragua will reroute a river on the border with Costa Rica that has been at the center of a lengthy dispute between the two Central American countries, the Nicaraguan government announced Tuesday.
President Barack Obama has solved the economic crisis — at least for one cigar company.
The Nicaraguan government's aggressive actions against journalists are threatening press freedoms in the country, the president of the Inter American Press Association warned.
Energy-starved Nicaragua is turning to wind as it tries to reduce its dependence on oil-based power.
The U.S. says it will freeze about $64 million in anti-poverty aid to Nicaragua amid accusations that local elections were fraudulent.
Nicaragua's opposition is pressing on with a bid to cancel disputed elections despite a presidential decree declaring that effort unconstitutional.
Nicaragua's opposition party is promising to block debate on the national budget until the government reviews all disputed local elections.
Russia's ambassador to Managua said Wednesday that his country will replace the Nicaraguan army's aging weaponry.
A U.S. government team is evaluating Nicaragua's proposal to destroy hundreds of Soviet-made missiles in exchange for hospital equipment, authorities said on Tuesday.
Nicaragua and the U.S. are negotiating the destruction of hundreds of Soviet-made SAM-7 missiles that Nicaragua acquired to fight U.S.-backed rebels in the 1980s.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday inaugurated a 150,000-barrel-a-day refinery the nation is building in Nicaragua as part of the leftist leader's oil-funded battle against U.S. influence in the region.
A former ally of President Daniel Ortega said Friday that he was willing to look at forming a legislative alliance with the new leader, a move that would give the new government the majority it needs to pass laws.
Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Norman Caldera has asked Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to butt out of his country's political affairs after Chavez signed a favorable oil pact with dozens of leftist Nicaraguan mayors.
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