Nicaragua
Wieters dropped from US Olympic qualifying roster

May. 30, 2021 11:04 AM EDT
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — Catcher Matt Wieters has been dropped from the U.S. roster for Olympic baseball qualifying that starts Monday. ...

A nurse talks to a woman that is about to get inoculated with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Berta Calderon hospital in Managua, Nicaragua, Thursday, April 8, 2021. Nicaragua has started the second phase of its vaccination program with 60-year-old persons now being inoculated. (AP Photo/Gabriela Selser)
Nicaragua slowly begins vaccinations for people over 60

Apr. 08, 2021 05:17 PM EDT

Nicaragua's Indigenous tell OAS of killings, land takeovers

Mar. 18, 2021 09:06 PM EDT
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua’s Indigenous groups complained Thursday to the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights about land takeovers and killings...

FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2018 file photo, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega and his wife and Vice President Rosario Murillo, lead a rally in Managua, Nicaragua. The Central American country has created a National Ministry for Extraterrestrial Space Affairs, The Moon and Other Celestial Bodies. The new agency was approved on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, by 76 legislators in the country's congress, which is dominated by President Daniel Ortega's Sandinista Party. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga, File)
Nicaragua creates Ministry of Extraterrestrial Space Affairs

Feb. 18, 2021 04:40 PM EST

Airport employees unload the first shipment of Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine after it arrived at the international airport in El Alto, Bolivia, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Nicaragua approves Russian COVID-19 vaccine

Feb. 03, 2021 12:34 PM EST

Paramedics Carolina Estrada, left, disinfects her partner Elvin Munguia after mobilizing a COVID-19 patient from his home to a hospital in the Iztapalapa district of Mexico City, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
The Latest: Mexico sees near-record daily coronavirus deaths

By The Associated Press Feb. 03, 2021 02:21 AM EST

Coronavirus puts Honduras' coffee harvest in jeopardy

By Marlon González And Javier Cordoba Dec. 31, 2020 03:19 PM EST
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic is threatening Honduras’ coffee harvest by keeping Hondurans who would normally travel for the work at...

FILE - In this July 12, 2020, file photo, Sporting Kansas City midfielder Roger Espinoza pushes the ball on the pitch during the second half of an MLS soccer match against Minnesota United in Kissimmee, Fla. Espinoza understands that the United States has been consumed by the presidential election but he's disheartened by the lack of response stateside to the Hurricanes ravaging his homeland in Honduras. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)
Sporting's Espinoza hopes to bring relief to Honduras

By Anne M. Peterson Nov. 16, 2020 06:15 PM EST

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Nov. 16, 2020 09:49 AM EST
UNDATED (AP) — The United States’ top infectious disease expert says news from Moderna that its COVID-19 vaccine candidate is 94.5% effective “is really quite...

An aerial view of the massive, rain-fueled landslide in the village of Queja, in Guatemala, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Eta. (Esteban Biba/Pool Photo via AP)
Tropical Storm Eta floods already drenched Florida cities

By Freida Frisaro And Kelli Kennedy Nov. 09, 2020 01:12 AM EST

A toddler is carried over a flooded street in the aftermath of Hurricane Eta in Jerusalen, Honduras, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. The storm that hit Nicaragua as a Category 4 hurricane on Tuesday had become more of a vast tropical rainstorm, but it was advancing so slowly and dumping so much rain that much of Central America remained on high alert. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)
Guatemala president says 37 dead in landslides caused by Eta

By Marlon González Nov. 05, 2020 12:01 AM EST

A woman works to recover the part of roof damaged by Hurricane Eta in Wawa, Nicaragua, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. Eta slammed into Nicaragua's Caribbean coast with potentially devastating winds Tuesday, while heavy rains thrown off by the Category 4 storm already were causing rivers to overflow across Central America. (AP Photo/Carlos Herrera)
Eta brings heavy rains, deadly mudslides to Honduras

By Marlon González Nov. 04, 2020 12:05 AM EST

This GeoColor satellite image taken Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, at 1 p.m. EDT, and provided by NOAA, shows Hurricane Eta in the Gulf of Mexico approaching the border of Honduras and Nicaragua. New Hurricane Eta quickly gained force Monday as it headed for Central America on the verge of becoming a major hurricane, threatening massive flooding and landslides across a vulnerable region. (NOAA via AP)
Cat 4 Hurricane Eta threatens flooding in Central America

Nov. 02, 2020 09:12 PM EST

FILE - In this June 1, 2018 file photo, a masked protestor holds up a Nicaraguan flag above the Spanish graffiti phrase: "The state did it," during a protest against the government of President Daniel Ortega on National Children's Day in Managua, Nicaragua. Nineteen Nicaraguans who say they suffered torture and sexual abuse at the hands of their country's security forces during anti-government protests from April to August 2018 testified in San Jose, Costa Rica to a panel of legal and psychological experts the week of Sept. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga, File)
Nicaraguans testify of abuses in crackdown on protests

Sep. 11, 2020 12:02 PM EDT

People attend a religious service at the Oasis of Peace evangelical church in Managua, Nicaragua, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020. Evangelical churches have kept spreading the Gospel despite government measures meant to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga)
Latin America's evangelical churches hard hit by pandemic

Aug. 26, 2020 01:14 PM EDT

Vatican calls for arson investigation at Nicaragua cathedral

Aug. 03, 2020 04:21 PM EDT
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — An arson attack on Managua’s cathedral has drawn the attention of Pope Francis and the Vatican after Nicaragua’s vice president...

46 Nicaraguans stranded in Guatemala continue journey

Jul. 18, 2020 04:34 PM EDT
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Nearly four dozen Nicaraguans stranded in Guatemala by pandemic travel restrictions for about four months said Saturday that they finally...

Workers ready a new monument, called the Peace Bell, before its inauguration ceremony later in the day in Managua, Nicaragua, Friday, July 17, 2020. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government is being deterred by the new coronavirus from holding the usual mass celebration to mark the victory of the country's revolution July 19, and will instead unveil a new addition to its collection of monuments. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga)
Amid virus, Nicaragua forgoes celebration, unveils monument

Jul. 17, 2020 01:27 PM EDT

FILE - In this May 11, 2020 file photo, a medical worker wears a mask and face shield at the entrance of the SERMESA hospital in Managua, Nicaragua. While the Pan-American Health Organization urges Nicaragua to take more aggressive measures against the coronavirus pandemic and neighboring countries warily eye its outbreak, President Daniel Ortega’s increasingly authoritarian government seems more focused on hiding the virus than treating it. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga, File)
During pandemic, Nicaraguan doctors face political pressure

Jul. 06, 2020 10:52 AM EDT

Norman Cardoze Sr., left, and his son Norman Cardoze Jr. pose for a photo from the balcony of their home where they are in quarantine after catching the new coronavirus in Managua, Nicaragua, Wednesday, May 27, 2020. During a May 16 game, manager Norman Cardoze Sr. and coach Carlos Aranda felt sick. Cardoze’s son Norman Jr., the team’s star slugger, was so weak and achy he didn’t play. Within two days all three men were hospitalized, where the Cardozes spent a week and Aranda died. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga)
Nicaraguan baseball manager fired after speaking about virus

Jun. 09, 2020 06:39 PM EDT