Malik Benson said he "blacked out,” but the crowd was very much alive. The ear-splitting audience of 59,588 went ballistic at Autzen Stadium,... Inspired by the Sandinista National Liberation Front, a ...

On April 28, 1987, U.S.-backed "Contras" in Nicaragua killed Portlander Ben Linder—a mechanical engineer, juggler, clown, unicyclist and volunteer in a country that was a battlefield in the Cold War.

Ronald Reagan touched many peoples’ lives, many he killed…one was Ben Linder. Ben Linder was murdered by Reagan’s contras on April 28, 1987. He was an engineer who had gone to Nicaragua in 1983, as ...

“What is your cause?” asked Danielle Pecoff at the end of Teatro Milagro’s performance of “El Payaso.” The Portland, Oregon, based theater troupe preformed their original play in the Student Union ...

I read with interest the April 27 Nica Times article on the 20th anniversary of the passing of Benjamin Linder. In August 1988, I briefly met Ben’s mother and sister at a United Church of Canada event ...

April 28, 2015, marks the anniversary of the assassination in 1987 of 27 year old Ben Linder and two Nicaraguans, Sergio Hernández and Pablo Rosales. My first introduction to Ben was when I was asked ...

You cannot stress the point too much. When (not if) Hillary Clinton becomes President of the United States of America, U.S. foreign relations will take a step back thirty years to the dark ages of ...

On April 28, 1987, Oregonian Ben Linder was working on a small hydroelectric dam in rural Nicaragua when he was killed by the Contras, anti-government forces paid and trained by the U.S. government.

LEON, Nicaragua -- On a street corner here in one of the oldest cities in the Western Hemisphere, situated among the volcanoes, the rum refineries and some of Nicaragua's leading intellectuals, is a ...