Alberto Lovo Rojas feared returning to Nicaragua with a target on his back. When his uncle was shot twice in the shoulder in the streets during a protest in 2019, they both knew they had to flee .

Since President Daniel Ortega’s government violently repressed a civil uprising in 2018, an estimated 850,000 Nicaraguans have fled the country.

Sheynnis Palacios has become a controversial figure in her native Nicaragua. The 23-year-old, crowned on November 18, 2023 in ...

The revised constitution defines Nicaragua as a "revolutionary" and socialist state and includes the red-and-black flag of ...

Nicaragua's 2025 constitutional reform establishes co-presidency, extends term limits, and redefines state powers under ...

They argue that the change is made “to fulfill the six-year term established” by the newly approved Nicaraguan Constitution.

Daniel Ortega, who is under Western sanctions for human rights abuses, had proposed the reform himself, which also lengthens the Central American country's presidential term from five to six years.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua's Congress approved a constitutional reform on Thursday that would make President Daniel Ortega and his wife, current Vice President Rosario Murillo, “copresidents” of the ...