The Latest Breaking News from Nicaragua

A new study says that about half of Nicaragua's population of 6.2 million want to leave their homeland because of a mix of economic decline and repression from President Daniel Ortega's government

The Nicaraguan government has barred Karen Celebertti, the director of the Miss Nicaragua beauty pageant, from re-entering the country. Following the victory of Miss Nicaragua Sheyniss Palacios in the Miss Universe pageant, photos of Palacios attending a 2018 anti-government rally went viral and she has become a symbol of the…

Nicaraguan authorities have barred the director of the national beauty pageant from re-entering the country after a Nicaraguan woman seen as a symbol of opposition to the Ortega government was crowned Miss Universe, media reports and exiled opposition members said.

Several Cuban migrants said that they had traveled with Viva Aerobus on flights chartered by small travel agencies.

Cuban and Haitian migrants are increasingly taking chartered flights to Nicaragua from where they seek to travel overland to the United States, prompting Washington to impose sanctions this week on the operators of the aircraft.

A Texas judge will decide the fate of a Biden administration program that allows people from four countries to live and work in the U.S. for up to two years. A man who sponsored his friend for the program has fought to save it.

The U_S_ State Department is calling Nicaragua's formal withdrawal from the Organization of American States “another step away from Democracy.”

Miss Nicaragua, Sheynnis Palacios, has won the Miss Universe competition in El Salvador, the first to wear the crown from her country

Sheynnis Palacios from Nicaragua, who was crowned Miss Universe 2023 is the first Nicaraguan to earn the title. Read further on Dynamite News:

Israeli forces are emulating what the U.S. did in Mosul, Fallujah and elsewhere. But it's harder to hide

For the auxiliary bishop of Managua, fellow priests and many in the pews who have had to flee or were exiled from Nicaragua recently, the Sunday afternoon Mass at a Miami parish is not only a way to find solace in community