The tenuous liberal democratic frameworks established in the 1990s after the civil wars in Guatemala and El Salvador are long exhausted. What will come next in both countries is uncertain.

Since President Donald Trump took office, immigrants in the U.S. illegally have changed their travel patterns and try to stay ...

USAID (US Agency for International Development) spends around $2 billion annually in Latin America, which is only 5% of its ...

Today, one of the revolutionary architects of that dictator’s ouster, Sandinista party chief Daniel Ortega, rules the country of 6.1 million as high-handedly and corruptly as Somoza ever did.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.” - John F. Kennedy ...

Six justices, all regarded as supporters of Mr Ortega's Sandinista party, determined that the constitutional ban on allowing re-election was “unenforceable”. The electoral court indicated it ...

Sandigo relates to the families she helps. A devout Catholic, she fled Nicaragua when she was 16, leaving behind her parents after the Sandinista government confiscated her family’s farm.

Making it stranger still, Sobalvarro, is an ex-commander of the anti-Sandinista guerrilla army, the so-called 'Contras', who fought against Ortega in the 1980s following the left-wing 1979 revolution.

Global View: The power that a rising and expanding America would inevitably acquire will be seen in Beijing and Moscow—and not only there—as a threat. Photo: Ju Peng/Alexander Kazakov ...