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Police charge director of Miss Nicaragua pageant with running 'beauty queen coup' plot
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaraguan police said Friday they want to arrest the director of the Miss Nicaragua pageant, accusing her of intentionally rigging contests so that anti-government beauty queens would win the pageants as part of a plot to overthrow the government. The charges...
Nicaragua's Miss Universe title win exposes deep political divide in the Central American country
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua's increasingly isolated and repressive government thought it had scored a rare public relations victory last week when Miss Nicaragua Sheynnis Palacios won the Miss Universe competition. But the "legitimate joy and pride” President Daniel Ortega's...
US calls Nicaragua's decision to leave Organization of American States a 'step away from democracy'
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. State Department called Nicaragua’s formal withdrawal from the Organization of American States on Sunday “another step away from democracy.” The regional body, known by its initials OAS, has long criticized rights violations under Nicaraguan...
Biden and López Obrador have talked fentanyl and US-Mexico migration. They pledged solidarity
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pledged Friday to work side-by-side to confront illicit fentanyl trafficking into the U.S. and to manage the growing number of migrants traveling north to the border between their nation. ...
Nicaragua’s exiled clergy and faithful in Miami keep up struggle for human rights at Mass
MIAMI (AP) — When the Rev. Silvio Báez finished his homily on a recent Sunday, applause broke out among the hundreds of faithful in St. Agatha Catholic Church, on the outskirts of Miami, that has become the spiritual home of the growing Nicaraguan diaspora. For the...
Today in History: November 11, World War I armistice signed
Today in History Today is Saturday, Nov. 11, the 315th day of 2023. There are 50 days left in the year. Today is Veterans Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 11, 1918, fighting in World War I ended as the Allies and Germany signed an...
The Organization of American States warns Nicaragua it will keep watching even as the country exits
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Organization of American States said Wednesday that it will continue closely monitoring Nicaragua’s democracy and human rights record even after the country’s imminent exit from the regional body later this month. OAS members made clear that Nicaragua...
Haiti bans charter flights to Nicaragua in blow to migrants fleeing poverty and violence
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's government has banned all charter flights to Nicaragua that migrants fleeing poverty and violence had been increasingly using in their quest to reach the United States, according to a bulletin issued Monday that The Associated Press obtained. ...
Nicaragua is 'weaponizing' US-bound migrants as Haitians pour in on charter flights, observers say
MEXICO CITY (AP) — More than 260 charter flights believed to be carrying migrants from Haiti have touched down in Nicaragua in recent months, according to flight data and experts in the region, adding to a historic crush of migration by people hoping to reach the U.S. The flow of...
Central America scrambles as the international community fails to find solution to record migration
PASO CANOAS, Costa Rica (AP) — The fleet of buses roared past the Panama-Costa Rica border. Hundreds of Venezuelan, Haitian and Ecuadorian migrants pressed their faces to the windows as they looked out onto a sign that read “Welcome to Costa Rica.” But few of them will see more...
