Abigail Hern News Today

There are no longer newspapers, opinion programs, radio debates, or television debates; and fewer press conferences or public rallies.

Human rights in Nicaragua have deteriorated since a political crisis in 2018 pitted the increasingly authoritarian Ortega government against democracy and political reform advocates.

Moment gunmen shoot up Mexican mayoral candidates campaign headquarters before ambushing a convey and kidnapping five of her staffers Erika Briones, who is running for mayor in Villa de Reyes, a city in the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosí, had her campaign headquarter attacked Briones said she was going to travel to a campaign function Wednesday when gunmen intercepted her vehicles outside the building and opened fire Briones, nominated under the dual National Action Party and Party...