ALBERTO ARCE Associated Press MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — In Nicaragua, where Marxist dogma has given way to a free market economy, the red-and-black flags of the Sandinista revolution have been… ...

Murillo led the re-election campaign that returned Ortega to power in 2006 with the help of a loyal opposition, and another in 2011.

Nicaragua's first couple, President Daniel Ortega and his wife Vice President Rosario Murillo, are both in their 70s but show no willingness to release their vice-like grip on power.

With this new set of restrictions, the U.S. government has now taken steps to impose visa restrictions on over 2,000 officials in Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo’s regime, which has deprived ...