MANAGUA— Haters will tell you that Nicaragua’s capital city is a squat, squalid and disagreeable dump. Then they’ll point to the excess of Christmas clutter, Chávez idolatry, and tacky tableaux ...

GRANADA, Nicaragua – I happened to arrive in Nicaragua’s oldest city a day before of the anniversary of Central American independence. As I checked into my hotel, La Gran Francia, a building dating ...

It's 8 a.m. and I am trudging up Nicaragua's youngest and most active volcano, struggling to carry a makeshift board up and over gritty, ashy black rocks and boulders for 45 minutes as my adrenaline ...

In November of 2013, I was renting my first apartment in Costa Rica, and I was restless. There was so much to see, not just in Costa Rica, but beyond its borders as well. My friend Bill Holman wrote ...