Daniel Ortega has been one of the most prominent figures in Nicaragua for three decades and is running ... Ortega tried repeatedly to get the National Assembly to amend the Constitution to lift ...

The dictator, Daniel Ortega, has executed a terrifying crackdown on the country. ... She was elected a deputy in the National Assembly. She would serve less than five years.

Zoom in: The amendments sent Wednesday by Ortega to the National Assembly, which is controlled by his Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) party, also include making the president ...

Nicaragua’s national assembly has voted to scrap presidential term limits, which could allow socialist President Daniel Ortega to remain in power indefinitely. The National Assembly voted for ...

A U.N.-backed panel on Thursday accused the Nicaraguan government, led by Socialist President Daniel Ortega, ... The report says Gustavo Porras, the head of the country’s National Assembly, ...

Voters will elect a president and members of the National Assembly. Daniel Ortega, the strongman president who governs with his wife as vice-president, plans to run for a fifth term.

Then, in 2014, the National Assembly changed the constitution to allow for indefinite reelection, as well as granting him sole authority to appoint military and police commanders. For the 2016 ...

Daniel Ortega. On the C-SPAN Networks: Daniel Ortega is a President for Nicaragua with six videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1987 Speech as a President for Nicaragua ...

The Nicaragua national assembly ordered the revocation of the legal status of five universities — including a Catholic university — along with several Catholic educational and charitable projects.

Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua’s leftist dictator, ... Ortega sent a bill to create the new cabinet-level Outer Space Affairs Secretariat to his rubber-stamping National Assembly on Jan. 28.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega proposed a constitutional reform to expand presidential powers over other branches of government, according to an official document seen by Reuters on Wednesday.