Nicaragua News News Nicaragua » Life: Nicaragua moves toward allowing life prison sentences
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua’s National Assembly took a first vote Tuesday to approve a constitutional reform that would allow sentences of life in prison for some crimes. The law now limits ...
News Nicaragua » Life: Nicaragua's Ortega threatens life sentences for opponents
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said Tuesday he has proposed a legal reform to allow sentences of life in prison and threatened to use it against some government opponents ...
News Nicaragua » Life: Nicaragua congress adopts life sentences; opposition opposes
MANAGUA, NicaraguaMANAGUA, Nicaragua — Nicaragua’s congress gave final approval Monday to change the constitution to permit life imprisonment. Congress is dominated by President Daniel Ortega’s ...
News Nicaragua » Life: New attempt to reverse Nicaragua’s pro-life laws fails
On Wednesday Nicaragua’s National Assembly rejected a proposal for the third time to legalize therapeutic abortion again in the country’s new Penal Code, which lawmakers finished discussing after a ...
News Nicaragua » Life: A Month in the Life of Nicaragua's Finest Beachbreak
You don’t go to Nicaragua to surf the points. You don’t go there for the reefbreaks, either. Obviously, the country is seriously holding, and there are undoubtedly world-class options in both ...
News Nicaragua » Life: In Nicaragua, Political Life Is Imitating ‘House of Cards’
Nicaragua is a political stage where a real-life House of Cards is now in its second season. President Daniel Ortega and his wife and partner in crime, Vice President Rosario Murillo, have together ...
News Nicaragua » Life: In rural Nicaragua, life as a Catholic priest is no pleasure cruise
Deacon Berman Roble pictured in mid-November in the seminary. He will be ordained Dec. 8, Feast of the Immaculate Conception. (Credit: Inés San Martín.) BOACO VIEJO-TEUSEPE-CAMOAPA, Nicaragua – ...
News Nicaragua » Life: Nicaragua’s Ortega threatens life sentences for opponents
MANAGUA, NicaraguaMANAGUA, Nicaragua — Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said Tuesday he has proposed a legal reform to allow sentences of life in prison and threatened to use it against some ...