An investigator for U.S. food giant Dole has testified that he fears for his life if he returns to Nicaragua because of his discovery of a plot to defraud the company out of millions of dollars.

Two men with cloaked identities testified on videotape Tuesday that they were recruited by lawyers in Nicaragua to fraudulently claim they were rendered sterile by pesticides used on Dole Fresh Fruit Co. banana plantations.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is accusing the U.S. of “taking bread” from the poor by holding back aid.

Washington is delaying $64 million in development aid to Nicaragua for three more months pending the resolution of an election dispute.

Nicaragua’s National Psychiatric Hospital houses about 140 patients. But with little financial help from the government, it lacks the resources to help them.

President Barack Obama has solved the economic crisis _ at least for one cigar company.

The Nicaraguan government’s aggressive actions against journalists are threatening press freedoms in the country, the president of the Inter American Press Association warned.

Former Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Aleman wants his old job back now that his money laundering conviction has been overturned.

The Supreme Court overturned former President Arnoldo Aleman’s conviction and 20-year prison sentence for money laundering on Friday, ending a long-running legal saga that has been colored by Nicaragua’s political landscape.

Nicaragua’s Supreme Court has thrown out a money laundering conviction against former President Arnoldo Aleman