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Residents come through for local Police in Granada

nicaraguanpost — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:47:46 +0000

On the 23 December at 3:30 pm, Ron Gay and Keith Knight as representatives of the Amigos de la Policia, donated two motorcycles to the Policia Nacional, Granada. They were gratefully accepted by Sub Comisionado Lara in the name of the Policia Nacional, Granada. Bob and Norma Stemm had donated the lions share for these motorcycles and donations to make up the difference (which was taken out of the Amigos de la Policia account) are being accepted at Peder’s Museum (Please specify the donation is towards the motorcycles and get a receipt). We do make a difference, in the safety and security of Granada! Mario Chacon of Nica Noticias and a local radio station is reporting the event on local radio, and hopefully Nicaragua Post website, and Wave Magazine will give us some exposure on the event. January is the time to start paying our annual dues (c1500 at Peder’s Museum, ask for a receipt) so we can continue with our efforts to be Amigos de la Policia de Granada

$20 million grant for water project

nicaraguanpost — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:43:10 +0000

WASHINGTON, December 16, 2008 - The following project was approved today by the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors:

IDA Credit: US$20 million

TERMS: Maturity = 40 years; Grace = 10 years

IDA Grant: US$20 million

Project Description: The project will support Nicaragua’s efforts to improve the quality of life of the population living in the Greater Managua region, by providing access to reliable water supply and sewerage services. The operation will finance (i) water and sanitation coverage extensions in low-income neighborhoods; (ii) improvements in water supply and efficiency in specific areas and; (iii) institutional strengthening activities as well as the project’s management and monitoring activities.

UN official gets online death threats

nicaraguanpost — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:22:30 +0000

NEW YORK: Death threats against United Nations General Assembly President Miguel D’Escoto, who is highly critical of the United States and

Israel, have been posted on the Internet, his spokesman said, adding that both United Nations security and the United States have been informed.

“This matter is being looked into by the pertinent authorities,” spokesman Enrique Yeves told reporters on Monday.

The president had come to know of the threats four days ago, he said. These are very serious threats against his life and he is taking them pretty seriously. Besides, the UN security staff is also tasking it very seriously, he added.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/UN_official_gets_online_death_threats/rssarticleshow/3845170.cms

Nicaragua: Diverse varieties of fraud

nicaraguanpost — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:12:51 +0000

When Baudelaire addressed his reader in the poem of that name with the tautological salute, “you, hypocrite reader” he was recognising people’s unavoidable moral, emotional and intellectual discontinuities. Few evade for long the knot of contradiction, fictions and, sometimes, downright lies people use to lend coherence and identity to what makes up the person they are. Socio-economic realities leave people dealing with the consequences of class conflict and the practical effects on others of what they do.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0812/S00304.htm

Nicaragua is a “family dictatorship” claims former minister

nicaraguanpost — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:04:45 +0000

The Nicaraguan administration of President Daniel Ortega “is not left-leaning or Sandinista or revolutionary, it’s imply a family dictatorship”, said Ernesto Cardenal, a Catholic priest and one of the country’s most renowned poets.

Cardenal, priest, poet, former Minister of Culture

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Cardenal was reacting on Sunday to the Ortega administration decision to censor Nicaraguan novelist Sergio Ramirez Mercado who was not allowed to write the introduction of a poetry anthology from Carlos Martinez Rivas that the Spanish newspaper El Pais was planning to publish in its Culture Section next May.

http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=15511&formato=HTML

Bush’s revenge on the Sandinista movement

nicaraguanpost — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:50:37 +0000

• THE Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) continues to be a real specter and a feverish, sick obsession for U.S. imperialism. Since its beginnings, it has been the most consistent political force in Nicaragua to confront and expose Yankee domination and stand up for sovereignty and social justice in that impoverished and plundered country.

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/diciembre/juev4/nicaragua.html

Vandals destroy statues of Immaculate Conception in Managua

nicaraguanpost — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:19:43 +0000

Managua, Nov 27, 2008 / 04:06 pm (CNA).- Two statues of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, the principal Marian devotion in Nicaragua, were destroyed by vandals this week in the capital city of Managua.

According to news reports, the destroyed statues were placed in the streets and have been used for political purposes by supporters of the government.

Father Rolando Alvarez, director of Radio Catolica, told reporters, “We don’t know who did it, but we do know what they did. They destroyed in darkness and without mercy a symbol of the Catholic faith of millions of people in the nation, because each blow against the Virgin Mary is a blow against millions of Nicaraguans.”

“This is called profanation, he said. It has no other name and the only thing to do is pray for those who carry out such hatred against the symbols of the Church.” Father Alvarez demanded that the statues be removed from the streets, “where they are exposed to the mocking and disrespect for an entire Catholic nation.”

Swiss hikers, guides found in Nicaragua

nicaraguanpost — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:19:03 +0000

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - Two Swiss citizens and two Nicaraguans were found on Tuesday, two days after they failed to return from a hike to a volcano in northwestern Nicaragua.
The Swiss Consulate in Nicaragua announced that the two hikers and their Nicaraguan guides were found, and expressed thanks for the search efforts carried out by police and soldiers.
Consulate official Claudia Pereira said the hikers left for a day hike up the Consiguina Volcano on Sunday. It was not clear how they were found and in what condition.
The hikers were Swiss citizen Fred Bauer, 65, a 20-year resident of Chichigalpa and a sister visiting Nicaragua.
The party’s vehicle was found Monday at the base of the volcano.

U.S. Withholds Grants for Nicaragua

nicaraguanpost — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:15:10 +0000

The United States government said Tuesday that it would withhold tens of millions of dollars in aid to Nicaragua because of the governing Sandinista party’s role in municipal elections that the opposition contends were rigged.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/world/americas/26nica.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Nicaragua: The Growing Blogosphere Through Collaboration

nicaraguanpost — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:22:51 +0000

The following is an email interview with Alvaro Berroteran, who started the blog Nicaragua Y Su Blog [es], which has been promoting new and existing blogs in the Nicaraguan blogsophere. Berroteran lives in the city of Granada and currently works in web design, but is a painter by trade. Recently, through other web 2.0 tools, such as Twitter, Berroteran has connected with others in the Nicaraguan blogosphere to help launch a new project called Blogs Nicaragua [es].

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/11/24/nicaragua-the-growing-blogosphere-through-collaboration/