The Latest Breaking News from Nicaragua

Two women with dual French and Nicaraguan citizenship will be tried on charges of conspiring to undermine Nicaragua's national integrity and spreading fake news, according to a court order. This follows Nicaragua's decision to expel the EU ambassador at the weekend.

European Union Ambassador Bettina Muscheidt left Nicaragua on Saturday, just three days after being declared "persona non grata" by the government of President Daniel Ortega, in a week of tensions with the international community.

Nicaragua suspended diplomatic ties with the Netherlands on Friday, according to a statement published by the Central American country's foreign ministry.

Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo says decision due to new US ambassador’s ‘interfering’ attitude.

Many countries around the world are becoming less democratic as leaders in places such as Nicaragua, Mali, Hungary and Bangladesh seek to increase their power and diminish the ability of the courts, legislatures and independent institutions to constrain them.

Nicaragua has declared the European Union's ambassador to the country a "persona non grata" and ordered her expulsion from the country, local media reported on Wednesday.

Nicaragua's government suspended CNN's Spanish-language service from all cable channels in the Central American country, the television station said Thursday.

Brazil’s far-right president claims that leftwing rival Lula will repress clergy like Ortega but so far with little apparent success

U.S. authorities say the number of Venezuelans taken into custody at the U.S. border with Mexico soared in August

Pope Francis asked the Nicaraguan government on Thursday to allow expelled nuns of the order founded by Mother Teresa to return to Nicaragua, saying they were harmless "revolutionaries of the gospel."

As border crossings have soared to record highs, U.S. President Joe Biden's administration is quietly pressing Mexico to accept more migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela under a COVID-19 expulsion order that the White House has publicly sought to end, seven U.S. and three Mexican officials said.