Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega

Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega announced this Sunday afternoon that the INSS board of directors revoked the reforms approved on April 16, which increased worker and employer contributions and reduced pensions by 5%, which generated a wave of protests and that left 27 people dead in the last five days. President ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua announced on Sunday that he was reversing a social security overhaul that had prompted days of protests in which up to two dozen people died. “We have to re-establish order,” Mr. Ortega said in televised remarks. “We cannot allow groups ...

The government of Daniel Ortega, through its spokesperson, Vice-president and First Lady, Rosario Murillo, on Friday accepted a call for dialogue by the private sector to discuss a new set of social security measures, which have led to widespread protests and violence in the country that killed at least seven persons and ...

Anti-government protesters pull down a statue that is emblematic of the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, at the Jean Paul Jennie ... MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said Saturday that his government is willing to enter into talks over social security ...

And of the five siblings who survived, one is technically a cousin: Daniel Ortega is the biological son of Rafael's brother, but since his parents weren't in a position to raise him, the Ortega-Garcias raised him as their son. Rafael was a grocer. Yoselyn, who is now 55, started working at age 7, fetching cartons ...

The letter was sent to President Daniel Ortega in early March by Nicaragua's National Alliance of Coffee Growers (ANCN). In it, they detail a mounting crisis, cite the impending danger of many farmers losing their bank financing, and ask for immediate, financial assistance. La Prensa has more on that ...

HAVANA TIMES – Nicaraguan poet Gioconda Belli expressed her fear Tuesday that the Government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo “criminalizes” the right to criticism and freedom of expression through social networks, approving laws similar to those of Venezuela, reported dpa. In an interview with ...

HAVANA TIMES – On May 31, 1998, Zoilamerica Narvaez, stepdaughter of the former Sandinista guerrilla leader Daniel Ortega, made public a denunciation that shook Nicaraguan politics to its core. Her earthshaking revelation – of huge magnitude and unsuspected consequences – included a paragraph ...

Depending on who you talk to and where they live, support for current President Daniel Ortega can be 50-50. Overall, our visit to Leon was an eye-opening, rewarding time. There is no question in this city, the centre of the Nicaraguan Revolution, Canadians are very welcome. “Amigos” was the word we ...

The first Latin American woman to be elected to the presidency was Nicaragua's Violeta Barrios de Chamorro back in 1990, when she defeated Sandinista Front leader Daniel Ortega (who is the current president of the Central American nation.) She was followed by Panama's Mireya Moscoso, who held ...

Cuba's President Raul Castro, left, and Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega, second left, listen to a speech by Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, outside of Miraflores palace during a rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, March 5, 2018. The presidents of Cuba, Nicaragua and Bolivia visit Venezuela ...

It was of Daniel Ortega, current president and hero of the 1979 revolution, and Rosario Murillo, Ortega's wife and current vice president, whose image bore a slight resemblance to the pale, latter-day Michael Jackson. Immediately something was amiss. The banner had all the markings of a campaign ...