Brewing Political Storm Gathers Over Nicaragua

Bold power plays by Nicaragua’s ambitious, if not particularly popular, President Daniel Ortega of the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) are pushing the country toward a full-blown political crisis that has begun to draw worried glances from abroad.

Chile: Gays Gain Ground, Still Lack Legal Protections

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Pope’s top aide and Vatican secretary of state, drew the ire of gay-rights supporters the world over last month when he essentially blamed homosexuals for the Catholic Church’s well-publicized sexual-misconduct problems.