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Managua, Nov 22 Nicaragua''s media highlights Sunday that an estimate of 350,000 people participated in the pro-government march on Saturday in favor of President Daniel Ortega.

Thousands of pro- and anti-government protesters took to the streets of Nicaragua's capital Saturday, protesting and backing President Daniel Ortega's bid to remain in power.

The row between conservative Euro MP Hans van Baalen and the Nicaraguan government is continuing in the Dutch press; "Van Baalen is furious," screams a headline in De Telegraaf .

A study titled Diagnosis of Corruption in Nicaragua was "based on 60 interviews in a range of sectors, including the government," said Chilean researcher Miguel Penailillo, who conducted the study.

Hundreds of students lobbed homemade bombs at Congress on Tuesday to protest government plans to cut university funding, as pro-and anti-government demonstrators prepared to square off at the weekend in Managua.

Managua, Nov 18 More than 300,000 Nicaraguans who benefitted from the National Literacy Campaign the Government of Daniel Ortega carried out will continue their studies using now the program "I Know How to Read", said Raul Fernandez, a pedagogical Cuban advisor.

President Obama represents a complete break with history. He does the opposite of what his predecessors have done in similar circumstances.

It has been perplexing that the world press has paid such scant attention to the unfolding usurpation of power by Daniel Ortega and the Sandinista party down in Managua.

Managua, Nov 14 Nicaraguan president, Daniel Ortega, is to present a Citizen Action Plan that includes projects for next year, announced Rosario Murillo, Coordinator of the Council of Communication and Citizens of the government.

The Nicaraguan government has apologised to The Hague after an incident involving Dutch Euro MP Hans van Baalen.

Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez - together with the likes of Cuba's Castro brothers, Ecuador's Rafael Correa, and Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega - is spewing a populist, leftist, and strongly anti-American brand of politics that is spreading throughout Latin America.

Followers of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, leader of the official Sandinista party, attacked dissident Sandinistas who were protesting on the one-year anniversary of nationwide municipal elections they consider 'fraudulent.' The brawl took place outside the Supreme Electoral Council, or CSE, located in front of the central headquarters of the ...

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.

A late-season hurricane ravaged parts of Central America Sunday as floods and landslides killed at least 91 in El Salvador and thousands were left homeless in Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is boosting, with Venezuelan support, food self-sufficiency and other development projects within the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas , hence the visit by a government delegation led by Venezuela's Deputy Foreign Minister Francisco Arias Cardenas.

Political maneuvering by President Daniel Ortega and six Sandinista judges on the Supreme Court to eliminate a constitutional term limit created a political crisis that opposition leaders and the U.S. ambassador said was undermining the countrya s democracy.

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.

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 opposition shut down Nicaragua's legislature Tuesday to protest a court ruling that clears the way for President Daniel Ortega to seek re-election in 2011.

The scene outside the U.S. Embassy last week illustrated fraying tensions in this capital where the Sandinista government has been maneuvering for reelection: Agitated pro-government youths hurled fireworks, rocks and eggs at the embassy grounds and shouted ``Death to the Yankees! Death to the empire!'' The following day, a Sandinista mob ...