Nicaragua

Tropical Storm Colin has brought rain and winds to parts of North and South Carolina, though the storm has weakened and conditions are expected to improve by Monday’s July Fourth celebrations. Separately, the center of Tropical Storm Bonnie rolled into the Pacific on Saturday after a rapid march across Central America, where it caused flooding, downed trees and forced thousands...

While the caravans have garnered media attention, the migrants traveling in them represent a tiny fraction of the migratory flow that carries people to the U.S. border every day, usually with the help of smugglers.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is seeking a fourth consecutive term as voting begins in elections against a field of little-known candidates while those who could have given him a real challenge sit in jail

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, writer and showrunner for the CW series, says his father, who has not been heard from since his arrest in July, is being held as a political prisoner.

NBC 6’s Ryan Nelson is in Bayfront Park where he spoke with some of the attendees who came despite the recent surge in COVID-19 cases.

NBC 6’s Ryan Nelson is in Bayfront Park where people are calling for action from the U.S. intervention in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela

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The family of a woman whose son was seen in a viral video at the United States border is celebrating her freedom after she was released from kidnappers. “My sister was set free,” Misael Obregon said in a YouTube video posted Wednesday after the release of his sister, Meylin. “Thank you, God. What a blessing.” Video of her 10-year-old-son Wilton…

Meylin Obregón, who was kidnapped while fleeing Nicaragua, has now been released, her family says. NBC 6’s Kim Wynne reports

The devastation caused by Hurricane Iota is becoming clear as communications are restored after the second Category 4 hurricane in two weeks to blast Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast.

South Florida is no stranger to the devastation of powerful storms, so it comes to no surprise that the community is joining together to help our neighbors in Central America. They’ve been severely impacted by not one — but two catastrophic hurricanes. NBC 6’s Alyssa Hyman reports

Hurricanes Iota and Eta have devastated the same stretch of the Caribbean in two weeks, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes and to deal with catastrophic flash flooding and mudslides.

Hurricane Iota is tearing across Nicaragua with screeching winds and pounding surf

Hurricane Iota is expected to wreak havoc in Central America, the same area where Eta hit just weeks ago. NBC 6’s Stephanie Bertini has more on how South Florida is stepping up to help.

Hurricane Iota made landfall on Monday night in Nicaragua. Iota is the 30th named storm of the 2020 hurricane season.

Hurricane Iota continues to rapidly strengthen as it approaches Central America and is expected to become an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 Hurricane by Monday. Iota was already a record-breaking system, being the 30th named storm of this year’s extraordinarily busy Atlantic hurricane season. Such activity has focused attention on climate change, which scientists say is causing wetter, stronger and more…

Tropical Storm Iota is brewing in the Caribbean Sea and threatening a second major hurricane for Nicaragua and Honduras

South Florida will still be dodging raindrops to start the weekend, but the wet weather begins to go away in your First Alert Doppler 6000 forecast.

Tropical Storm Iota formed Friday in the Caribbean and is expected to strengthen into a hurricane as it approaches Central America. Iota was located 350 miles south-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center’s most recent update. The NHC said Iota could bring dangerous wind, storm surge and rainfall impacts to…

A divided U.S. appeals court has ruled that the Trump administration can end humanitarian protections that have allowed hundreds of thousands of people from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Sudan to remain in the United States.