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U.S Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., speaks during a news conference after a roundtable discussion with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Venezuelan exiles, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Pompeo talks Nicaragua after Florida Senate condemns Ortega

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON - Associated Press

Florida Senate condemns Nicaraguan President Ortega

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Nicaragua’s opposition unites against Ortega administration

By GABRIELA SELSER - Associated Press

Ivania Alvarez holds up an open jug of water to celebrates with Neyma Hernandez after their release from prison, at her home in Managua, Nicaragua, Monday, Dec. 30, 2019. The two belonged to the &quot;aguadores,&quot; a group of people who took water to protesters amid anti-government demonstrations starting in April 2018 over a social security overhaul which broadened to include demands for President Daniel Ortega's exit from office and early elections. (AP Photo/Oscar Navarrete)

Nicaragua frees 91 protesters, including Belgian

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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega speaks during a rally in Managua, Nicaragua, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga) **FILE**

U.S.-Russia power game simmers in Latin America; Trump slaps new sanctions on Nicaragua

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2018 file photo, Carlos Fernando Chamorro arrives outside Central Courts in Managua, Nicaragua. Chamorro has returned to the Nicaragua after nearly a year in exile in Costa Rica. Chamorro fled in January, a month after police raided and occupied his news outlets’ offices. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga, File)

Prominent Nicaraguan journalist returns from self-exile

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This undated photo provided by Anderson's family shows Haley Anderson. A man accused of killing Anderson, a nursing student in upstate New York is being put on trial for the slaying in Nicaragua. Former Binghamton University student Orlando Tercero is accused of killing fellow student Anderson in 2018. The court proceeding is taking place in Managua, Nicaragua, with a Nicaraguan prosecutor and a Nicaraguan judge applying that country’s law. Witnesses have been testifying from Binghamton via streaming video. (Anderson's family/Broome County District Attorney's office via AP)

Nicaragua court convicts ex-student in New York killing

By GABRIELA SELSER - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by Anderson's family shows Haley Anderson. A man accused of killing Anderson, a nursing student in upstate New York is being put on trial for the slaying in Nicaragua. Former Binghamton University student Orlando Tercero is accused of killing fellow student Anderson in 2018. The court proceeding is taking place in Managua, Nicaragua, with a Nicaraguan prosecutor and a Nicaraguan judge applying that country’s law. Witnesses have been testifying from Binghamton via streaming video. (Anderson's family/Broome County District Attorney's office via AP)

Killing took place in New York, but Nicaragua hosts trial

By RYAN TARINELLI and GABRIELA SELSER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2016 file photo, children swing in a park next to an election billboard promoting Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega and running mate, his wife Rosario Murillo in Managua, Nicaragua. Nicaraguan opposition leaders returned to the negotiating table Wednesday, July 31, 2019, at a business center where talks on resolving the country's political crisis stalled months ago, but there was nobody there to talk to. The opposition wants Ortega, 73, to negotiate electoral reform and early elections. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)

Vatican envoy: Nicaraguan government says talks ‘concluded’

By GABRIELA SELSER - Associated Press

Nicaragua declares alert over dengue fever

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Fugitive Salvadoran ex-president given Nicaragua citizenship

By GABRIELA SELSER - Associated Press

In this July 2, 2019 photo provided by Jesse Tellera, asylum seeker Claudio Aviles sits by a posted list of migrants who are in San Luis Río Colorado, Mexico, waiting to seek asylum in the United States. Aviles, of Guerrero, Mexico, has since made it to the U.S. with his wife and young children. Thousands of asylum seekers are waiting on the Mexican side of the border to ask for asylum in the U.S., which has severely restricted the number of people it allows in each day. (Jesse Tellera via AP)

Some asylum seekers forced to wait in Mexico help each other

By ASTRID GALVAN - Associated Press

Jose Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch, shows journalists a report about Nicaragua at the HRW office in Washington on Wednesday June 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Luis Alonso Lugo)

Human rights group urges sanctions on Nicaragua’s Ortega

By LUIS ALONSO LUGO - Associated Press

Students, some hiding their identify for fear of being identified and later attacked by security forces or government supporters, protest inside the Central American University (UCA) where security forces cannot legally enter to demand the release of all political prisoners in Managua, Nicaragua, Tuesday, June 18, 2019, the last day of a 90-day period for releasing such prisoners as part of negotiations between the government and opposition. Nicaragua's government said Tuesday that it has released all prisoners detained in relation to 2018 anti-government protests, though the opposition maintains that more than 80 people it considers political prisoners are still in custody. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga)

Nicaragua says released all considered political prisoners

By GABRIELA SELSER - Associated Press

Opposition member María Adilia Peralta Cerratos is embraced by a relative as she returns home after being in prison, in Masaya, Nicaragua, Monday, May 20, 2019. Peralta Cerratos is one of 100 prisoners the Nicaraguan government released Monday in a form of house arrest, including three human rights activists. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga)

Nicaragua warns banks of sanctions if they join strike

By GABRIELA SELSER - Associated Press

In this Oct. 17, 2018 photo, provided by the Nicaraguan National Police, prisoners detained and imprisoned during the recent uprisings against the government of President Daniel Ortega, are shown to the press in Managua, Nicaragua. At left is Eddy Antonio Montes Praslin, who was killed on Thursday, May 16, 2019, by a bullet in a prison north of the capital amid disturbances that left six prison officials injured, Nicaragua's interior ministry said. (Nicaraguan National Police via AP)

US-Nicaraguan man killed in detention served in US Navy

By GABRIELA SELSER - Associated Press

Official says Cuban visits to Nicaragua up 900%

By GABRIELA SELSER - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 6, 2018 file photo, Managua's auxiliary Roman Catholic Bishop Silvio Báez arrives at the Sacred Heart church in Managua, Nicaragua. Báez, an outspoken critic of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has left on Tuesday, April 23, 2019, for the Vatican after being called there indefinitely by Pope Francis. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Bishop critical of Nicaragua’s Ortega leaves for Vatican

By GABRIELA SELSER - Associated Press

Anti-government protesters join a Stations of the Cross procession on Good Friday, carrying signs demanding the release of political prisoners in Managua, Nicaragua, Friday, April 19, 2019. Good Friday religious processions in Nicaragua’s capital have taken a decidedly political tone as people have seized on a rare opportunity to renew protests against the government of President Daniel Ortega. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga)

Nicaraguans use Good Friday processions to protest

By GABRIELA SELSER - Associated Press

A pro-President Donald Trump supporter chants slogans, Friday, June 1, 2017, in Miami. The president announced a revised Cuba policy aimed at stopping the flow of U.S. cash to the country's military and security services while maintaining diplomatic relations. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) **FILE**

Trump hits Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua with new sanctions

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times