The incident happened near Costa Rica University on the east side of San José on Wednesday. Joao Maldonado, 34, was driving with his partner at the time, Costa Rica's Judicial Investigation department said.

Nicaragua will export food items such as meat and seafood, such as fish, shrimp, lobsters, sea cucumber, sugar, peanuts and rum.

The bank shared that in the last 11 months, it has recorded $4.24 billion in remittances, which is 47% more compared to the previous year.

It had arrived from Dubai and there was an anonymous tip-off that it was carrying potential victims of human trafficking.

The passengers included 11 unaccompanied minors, according to Paris prosecutors.

Javier Mieli has not invited Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega for the inauguration ceremony.

In the last five years, the percentage of Nicaraguans willing to move out of the country has increased from 35% to almost 50%.

The United States Department of State spokesperson said the decision "further isolates Nicaragua from the international community."

A Nicaraguan mental health worker who admires feminist icon Mary Wollstonecraft won this year's pageant held in El Salvador

"The Ortega government knows they have few important policy tools at hand to confront the United States, ... so they have armed migration as a way to attack," Manuel Orozco said.

In a bid to muzzle dissenting voices, the country has seen increased persecution against opponents and human rights defenders over the last six months, according to a United Nations panel of experts.

The religious group was found to be in violation of transparency laws by failing to present the required financial statements over the last three years.

Daniel Ortega's regime recently suffered two setbacks in connection with international financing, deepening its woes.

The Communist government of Nicaragua has stripped 94 dissidents of their citizenship.

A dissident Nicaraguan Roman Catholic bishop and a critic of President Daniel Ortega has been ordered to face trial, as the administration continues to attack the Church.

A new report on Friday shows that Nicaraguan migrants fleeing from their country have found the highest increase of numbers in the border in November, as the U.S. immigration crisis continues.

Nicaragua is reportedly experience the worst attack on press freedom this year, as many Latin American countries find their leaders attacking journalists publicly in the deadliest year for journalists since 1998.

The UN High Commissioner of Human Rights said on Thursday that the human rights violations in Nicaragua continues to escalate under the administration of Daniel Ortega.

The government of Costa Rica has started implementing its tightened new policies regarding asking for asylum in the country as its system continues to be overwhelmed.

The U.S. released new additions to their religious blacklist on Friday, which includes Cuba and the Russian mercenary team Wagner Group, and which allows the former to potentially put up more sanctions against them.

The recent Nicaragua elections ended on Monday with the ruling Sandinista party taking over all of the municipalities of the country, in polls plagued with alleged repression and political violence.

We celebrate Central America's independence day with some of its most beautiful World Heritage Sites.

Startled by Ortega’s gore negligence, the rights group Amnesty International slammed Ortega for putting the lives of the people at risk in a desperate bid to get the economy running.

Leaders of Brazil, Mexico, and Nicaragua have opted for a rather light-hearted attitude towards the deathly pandemic as they call it a "little flu”, while encouraging families to go out and eat. 

A pastor in Nicaragua and other four religious fanatics, threw a 25-year-old woman to a bonfire because they said she was "possessed." Unfortunately a week later, after a painful agony, the victim died in a hospital in Managua.

Jill Biden is planning a trip to Latin America in June. Find out why.

Wilmer Valderrama spent a couple of days vacationing in Nicaragua. Check out all the details of his trip here!

We celebrate Cartoonists Day by highlighting the talented work of Nicaraguan painter "Archie Nica."

Bianca Jagger celebrates her 71st birthday. Here are some things to know about Mick Jagger's former wife from Nicaragua.

A Nicaraguan girl covered Nicky Jam's "With You Tonight" and caught the Puerto Rican artist's attention. Watch video here!