Nine Nicaraguan farmers were sentenced to between three and five years in jail for an armed attack on employees of a bank that specializes in loans to the poor, court spokesman Roberto Larios said today.

The farmers opened fire on employees of the Local Development Fund who were collecting debts and beat their
vehicle with a branding iron and bicycle parts. The May…

After reporters corrected Nicaragua’s deputy foreign minister Manuel Coronel Kautz for calling Dutch Member of European Parlaiment Hans vanBaalen a German, Kautz proceeded to publicly dismiss Holland as a “crappy little country.” Now that’s what I call diplomacy.

The foreign ministry later apologized, but maintained its accusation that van Baalen was a meddler for holding a press conference in the capital in which he lambasted a  Supreme Court ruling, which was executed by Sandinista judges like a guerrilla ambush, to open the way for President Daniel Ortega to seek…

The Atlanta-based Carter Center called on Honduras to “rectify offenses committed against due process” when president Manuel Zelaya was detained and exiled in June, according to a statement today following a visit to the Central American country.

The center, a nonprofit democracy watchdog founded by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, expressed concern that the country’s political crisis could undermine November 29 elections.

Talks to end the Central American country’s four-month crisis failed yesterday on the de facto government’s refusal to restore Zelaya to power.

The…