Nicaragua has long had a history of civil unrest, and as anyone who follows the news recently is aware, it is once again a country in chaos. Rioting, road closures, and even slayings are all too ...

While it may not get as many tourists as its southern neighbor Costa Rica, Nicaragua is quickly becoming one of the hottest places to travel in Central and South America. Also known as "The Land Of ...

As the days start getting longer and winter’s chill gradually gives way to spring, the weather is becoming more conducive to firing up some of the latest Nicaraguan cigars. Made in the Joya de ...

Nicaraguan cigars are smoked in more than 90 countries around the world - Copyright AFP Oswaldo RIVAS Nicaraguan cigars are smoked in more than 90 countries around ...

With skilled hands and four decades of experience, Aristo Torres mixes tobacco leaves in a cigar factory in northern Nicaragua, most of which are exported to the United States. To make the cigar “we ...

Part of the success of Nicaragua's thriving cigar industry is a carefully honed mystique of family: how the clannish industry was forged and maintained by a handful of fathers, sons, cousins, brothers ...

Central America’s poorest country, Nicaragua, which holds a presidential election on Sunday, has been mired in political crisis for three years. Former guerrilla turned longtime leader Daniel Ortega ...

Ron Perlman’s three-decade career has been as consistently charming as it is veiled. To all but the most hard-core of cinephiles, he was “that guy”: the lion-faced beast of TV’s Beauty and the Beast, ...

As the days start getting longer and winter’s chill gradually gives way to spring, the weather is becoming more conducive to firing up some of the latest Nicaraguan cigars. Made in the Joya de ...

With a deftness that comes from four decades of experience, Aristo Torres sorts tobacco leaves at a factory in Nicaragua -- a country making great strides in the manufacture and export of cigars. The ...