Nicaragua
EL PUEBLO UNIDO?
CHECKOUT TIME
Venezuelan opponents of Maduro, and those in Washington who’ve tried to overthrow him, may be gleeful about the demise of his buddy Morales. But Maduro’s army is still with him.
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SANDINISMO
Former Sandinista rebels Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, will stop at nothing to hold on to power.
LOS HIJOS DE SANDINO
Forty years ago Friday—July 19, 1979—a revolution in Nicaragua promised hope and dignity to the people of Central America. Things didn’t work out that way.
LUCHAMOS CONTRA EL YANQUI
The Reagan administration decided it could solve the problem of El Salvador's civil war by giving covert aid to rebels fighting the Sandinistas. The results were grim.
ENEMIGO DE LA HUMANIDAD
Bill Gentile was a young freelancer risking everything to report on the revolutions. Here he begins the story of what he discovered about war, journalism, and himself.
PYRRHIC VICTORY
Furious over a group of Central Americans who hope to claim asylum, President Trump has threatened to exacerbate the crises that are making people claim asylum in the first place.
AT THE POINT OF A GUN
A student under fire, thinking she was about to die, apologized to her mother on video. It went viral. She was arrested, tortured, made to recant. Ortega boosters loved that.