Forbes will be launching its Central American version this March with its first issue listing the wealthiest people in the region.

18 money launderers who had posed as Televisa journalists to smuggle over $9 million through Nicaragua were sent back to Mexico to serve out their sentences.

Human rights groups and a bishop say the 10 deaths in the small frontier town are the work of a guerrilla group. The Nicaraguan government disagrees, saying those responsible are no more than criminals.

Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who for two weeks has been holed up in Moscow’s international airport, won asylum offers from three different countries on Friday.

The CEO of the HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Company, Wang Jing, already managed to secure his telecommunications company a $300 million contract with Nicaragua in 2012. After the canal is done being built, a 49 percent stake of it will go to investors, with the other 51 percent going to the state.

Eric Justin Toth, who replaced Osama bin Laden on the FBI's Most Wanted List, was captured in Nicaragua.

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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Friday he hoped to have "civilized" talks with Nicaragua's leader to resolve a dispute over their sea border after a U.N. court slashed Bogota's maritime territory.

Nicaraguan police have detained 18 people, including a Mexican policeman, posing as journalists while trying to enter Honduras with millions of dollars in cash, the country's police chief said on Friday.

A U.S. citizen serving a 22-year prison sentence in Nicaragua for drug trafficking and money laundering, who a United Nations group has said was wrongly convicted, appeared in court on Thursday for the start of a long-awaited appeals proceeding.