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150.000 Nicaraguans Expected During This Year’s Exodus From Costa Rica

Posted on 09 December 2009

An estimated 150.000 Nicaraguan nationals are expected to head north in the coming weeks, according to the director general de Migración, Mario Zamora. The exodus to Nicaragua is expected to start on December 15 and the return on or before January 10, 2010. Immigration director Zamora said that the Policía Migratoria (immigration police) will be working [...] Continue Reading

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Nicaragua must investigate violent attacks against human rights activist

Posted on 09 December 2009

The Nicaraguan authorities must investigate violent attacks and death threats against a human rights activist, Amnesty International has said. Leonor Martínez received numerous phone messages throughout November threatening to kill her and her family unless she gives up her work with the Coalición de Jóvenes Nicaragüense, a civil society group. On 20 November, a man approached the [...] Continue Reading

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Nicaraguans Drink More Soda Pop than Milk

Posted on 23 August 2009

Nicaraguans Drink More Soda Pop than Milk Managua - Nicaraguans drink 80 litres a year of soda pop and only 45 of milk, according to statistics released by the Nicaraguan Chamber of Dairy Products. Authorities of the country, specially the Education Ministry, are currently promoting that the National Assembly approves the Glass of Milk Bill, to benefit [...] Continue Reading

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Nicaragua slammed for abortion policy

Posted on 23 August 2009

Amnesty International is slamming yet another Latin American country for its pro-life laws. In a recently released report , Amnesty has called Nicaragua’s total ban on abortions a “cruel, inhuman disgrace” and charged that the new law has led to an increase in maternal deaths. As in the cases of Mexico, the Dominican Republic and [...] Continue Reading

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European Union Delegation To Visit Nicaragua To Negotiate Aid Thaw

Posted on 23 August 2009

Managua — A group of senior EU officials will visit Nicaragua in September to negotiate lifting restriction on a financial aid to the country, French ambassador to Managua Thierry Fraysse said on Wednesday. The EU halted 100 million dollars of direct budget support for the Nicaraguan government after opposition parties complained of fraud during the November [...] Continue Reading

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‘UNMISTAKABLE’ Pattern

Posted on 23 August 2009

President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua is the latest Latin American leftist leader to follow the political “playbook” written by President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, according to a former Costa Rican ambassador to the United States. “Chavez established the model, and his fellow populist leftists are copying it,” Ambassador Jaime Daremblum wrote in an analysis of Mr. [...] Continue Reading

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Russia grants over $3 mln for Nicaragua’s mine-clearing operations

Posted on 23 August 2009

   Russia granted 3.5 million dollars to Nicaragua for launching mine-clearing operations in remote and hard-to-reach regions, Russian ambassador in Nicaragua, Igor Kondrashev, told Itar-Tass by phone on Friday. This aid is provided in compliance with the agreement signed by the director-general of the federal a gency for support and coordination of Russian participation in international humanitarian [...] Continue Reading

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Nicaragua marks Sandinista revolt

Posted on 15 August 2009

 Thousands of people have gathered in Managua, the Nicaraguan capital, to mark 30 years since the Sandinista revolution that overthrew Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaragua’s then authoritarian leader. Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua’s president and one of the leaders of the revolution, attended anniversary celebrations at John Paull II Plaza de la Fe, the capital’s main square, on Sunday. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/07/2009719193845946209.html Continue Reading

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Honduran post-coup leader wishes to shake hands with Nicaraguan president

Posted on 15 August 2009

Honduran post-coup leader Roberto Micheletti said Wednesday he wishes to shake hands with Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega who hosts ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. Honduras interim president Roberto Micheletti delivers a speech at the presidential house in Tegucigalpa July 24, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters, File Photo) Photo Gallery>>>     Micheletti, former president of the Honduran Congress, was appointed president after the June [...] Continue Reading

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Nicaraguan tourism affected by Honduras’ political crisis

Posted on 12 August 2009

Nicaragua’s tourism is heavily affected by the ongoing political crisis in neighboring Honduras and the country has witnessed a sharp drop of Central American tourists, authorities said Tuesday.     According to a report published by the National Chamber of Tourism, the number of Central American, U.S. and European tourists to the country dropped at least 8 [...] Continue Reading

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