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105 pounds – Yader Escobar (15-2, 11 kos) vs. Miguel Tellez (18-10, 6 kos) – 8 rounds
The main event will feature highly rated Yader Escobar (#15, WBA, #10 WBO, #8 IBF) facing off against former world title challenger Miguel Tellez in an 8 round slugfest. This is a rematch of a fight that occurred in February of this year in which Escobar was able to pull off a narrow decision against then IBF rated Tellez.
112 pounds – Evert Briceno (29-5, 24 kos) vs. Marlon Pineda (8-3-1, 5 kos) – 8 rounds
Former world title challenger and current WBA (#14) and IBF (#14) ranked Briceno will face up and comer Marlon Pineda in an 8 round bout. Briceno is looking to reach his milestone 30th win and has found an obstacle in the always game Marlon Pineda. Pineda on the other hand knows that a win over Briceno will project him onto the world-boxing scene.
140 pounds – Cristian Ruiz (6-0, 5 kos) vs. Osman Vilchez (2-5, 0 kos) – 6 rounds
Power punching prospect Cristian Ruiz will face the always-game Osman Vilchez in a 6 round bout.
118 pounds – Jose Antonio Elizabeth (9-2,4 kos) vs. Juan Alvarez (11-14, 8 kos) – 6 rounds
This 6 round bout has the potential to be the fight of the night in which two very busy light punching fighters will go at it since the start of the belt. Up and comer Elizabeth will try to impose his way on the durable Alvarez.
105 pounds – Carlos Buitrago (4-0, 2 kos) vs. Ernesto Castillo (0-1, 0 kos) – 4 rounds
Sixteen year old phenom and future super star boxer Carlos Buitrago will face Ernesto Castillo in rematch of what was a real exciting first fight. Buitrago, a former stand out amateur boxer with a record of 167-8, 42 kos, will put his polished boxing style to the test against the in your face attack of Castillo.
115 pounds – Rene Alvarado ( 4-0, 4 kos) vs. Heyner Aragon (0-2, 0 kos) – 4 rounds
Former 2 time Central American Amateur boxing champ, Rene Alvarado, is riding a 4 fight win streak in which he has been able to knock out all of his opponents.
126 pounds – Miguel Aguilar (1-0, 0 kos) vs. Melvin Umanzor (1-3, 1 kos) – 4 rounds
Stylist Miguel Aguilar will put his polished boxing on the line against Melvin Umanzor a boxer with a slight edge in experience. Aguilar impressed the crowd in his first bout with a lot of poise and refined boxing technique.
126 pounds – Eliecer Lanzas (1-0, 0 kos) vs. Roger Duran (1-2, 0 kos) – 4 rounds
Former Central American feather weight Eliecer Lanzas impressed in his debute winning a tough 4 round fight against then highly touted prospect Danny Erazo. Lanzas, along with Miguel Aguilar lead a fine crop of feather weight prospects which will soon be lighting up the Nicaraguan boxing scene.
140 pounds – Walter Castillo (0-1, 0 kos) vs. Nicolas Montes (0-1, 0 kos) – 4 rounds
Former 140 pound Central American amateur champ Walter Castillo had a very disappointing debut in which he lost a SD to boxer Edwin Palacios. Castillo, a talented boxer who has excelled in the international amateur boxing scene, will try to make a comeback and get his career on the right track.

(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Fewer than one-in-five Nicaraguan adults are satisfied with the performance of Daniel Ortega, according to a poll by M&R. 18.4 per cent of respondents qualify the president’s tenure as good or very good, practically unchanged since last December.

In November 2006, Ortega—a member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN)—won the presidential election with 37.99 per cent of all cast ballots. Presidential candidates in Nicaragua are not compelled to garner more than 50 per cent of the vote in order to win the election.

Ortega governed from 1985 to 1990, but was a losing candidate in the 1990, 1996 and 2001 ballots. In January 2007, he was sworn in for a five-year term.

Earlier this month, Nicaragua became the first country to side with Russia in its acknowledgement of the independence of the Georgian breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Russian president Dmitry Medvedev had endorsed the independence of the two regions on Aug. 26, after an armed conflict erupted between Russian and Georgian forces in South Ossetia.

Ortega said that Nicaragua “recognizes the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia” and went on to condemn the “political hegemonies” that, according to him, are “trying to surround Russia” and seeking to “build a military fence against Russia.”

MANAGUA, Nicaragua - A police captain says authorities have recovered a stolen sword that once belonged to Nicaraguan poet Ruben Dario.

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