Sun Sentinel

Inside Rep. Weller’s Nicaragua land deal

The rolling surf of the Pacific Ocean crashes onto white sand beaches below a lush hillside in southwest Nicaragua, a picture of tropical paradise by anyone’s definition. These days, paradise is for ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Indigenous leader, son killed in Nicaragua land invasion

MEXICO CITYMEXICO CITY — A local Indigenous leader and his son died in a gunfight with land invaders who tried to run them off their land near Nicaragua’s northern Caribbean coast, an environmental ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Indigenous people in northeast Nicaragua say armed settlers are pushing them off their land

MEXICO CITYMEXICO CITY — Indigenous communities in northeast Nicaragua are under growing pressure from armed assailants who use kidnappings and killings to push people off their land, according to ...
McClatchyDC

Amid unrest, Nicaragua’s ruling party organizes a series of land grabs

On repeated occasions in the last two months, squatters have descended on swaths of prime land around Nicaragua to set up overnight settlements, with acres of simple huts popping up almost overnight ...
The Guardian

Land of opportunity – and fear – along route of Nicaragua’s giant new canal

In an era of breathtaking engineering feats, there is unease about what this mega project will mean for people and their homes, wildlife and ecosystems. Will it bring wealth and growth or confusion ...