Nicaragua Travel News

The Instituto Nacional de Seguros is taking the opportunity to sell owners of vehicles a life insurance policy with the payment of the 2010 Marchamo.

By Steve Stecklow MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- With just 300 or so Muslims in all of Nicaragua, it became an instant mystery here when a big new mosque suddenly seemed to spring up recently in a residential neighborhood.

Southwest Florida is in the five-day cone of probability for Tropical Storm Ida.

Hurricane Ida swept onto Nicaragua's Atlantic coast on Thursday, battering two islands popular with tourists.

Hurricane Ida weakened to a tropical storm after washing ashore today in eastern Nicaragua, where it is forecast to dump enough rain to unleash life-threatening floods and mudslides, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

In a move sure to boost Daniel Ortega's chances of becoming chief executive for life, the Nicaraguan Supreme Court has scrapped presidential term limits, clearing the way for him to run for re-election in 2011.

Tropical Storm Ida grew to hurricane force just off Nicaragua's coast on Thursday, forcing more than 2,000 people to flee their homes and knocking out power to some parts of the impoverished region.

Archbishop Leopoldo Brenes Solorzano and Auxiliary Bishop Silvio Jose Baez Ortega of Managua have decried violence at a recent protest against the US embassy in Nicaragua.

The U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua says he is determined to remain at his post and will not be chased out of the country by anti-American demonstrators, like those who stormed the U.S. Embassy in the capital, Managua, last week and demanded he be expelled.

Managua/Washington - The US ambassador to Nicaragua was evacuated by police Friday from a university in the capital city after demonstrators threw fireworks at him over remarks he made about the government.

In Nicaragua, divisions within student groups have been evident during recent protests in Managua about the university budget and recent comments by the US Ambassador about a Supreme Court decision.

Staff Photo by Danielle Moore Dustin Peoples, 16, welds "horseshoe cowboys" out of old washers and horseshoes during a construction and metalworking class at the Catoosa Performance Learning Center.

A surplus fire engine long retired from use by the Richmond Fire Department departed from Beale Air Force Base north of Sacramento on Oct.

Denis Raul Casco has a look at the irrigation system in Elsa Gonzalez' garden. Casco works for the local environmental group MOPAFMA and helped install the garden and watering system in Nicaragua.

Denis Raul Casco has a look at the irrigation system in Elsa Gonzalez' garden. Casco works for the local environmental group MOPAFMA and helped install the garden and watering system in Nicaragua.

Sure, you can take a vacation and sleep the days away under a beach umbrella. But radio and TV travel host Rick Steves has some advice: leave your hotel and meet the people From France to Nicaragua, from Italy to Iran, Rick Steves travels the globe, hoping to find that one treasure: communing with the people he meets, like these young women in ...

WAM Santo Domingo,Managua, 6th Oct. 2009 -- President Leonel Fern?ndez of Dominican Republic welcomed today visiting UAE Foreign Minister HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the Presidential Palace.

Today at the broadcast of "Abriendo Brecha", a local news its director and anchor Rodrigo Wong Arevalo revealed how Zelaya entered the country.

I've actually been enjoying the Top 5 lists, so they'll continue through the rest of this week.

The Honduran embassy in Managua denied on Wednesday ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya's alleged death threats against presidential candidate Elvin Santos.