Posted on 24 November 2008 by nicaraguanpost
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Posted on 24 November 2008 by nicaraguanpost
Full Story">MANAGUA: The music of President Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista party, the rousing songs sung during political rallies and street protests that draw his supporters by the thousands, is the same music that rang out during the war years of the 1980s. “Brother, give me your hand, we now march united toward the victorious sun, on the path to liberty,” goes one.
But Carlos Mejía Godoy, the revolutionary singer-songwriter who dreamed up those songs when he was the Sandinistas’ chief balladeer, has told Ortega’s government to stop using his music and in recent days has been furiously scribbling new lyrics that lament the direction that Ortega is taking the country.
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Posted on 24 November 2008 by nicaraguanpost
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| Amid recent violent protests over the results of municipal elections in Nicaragua, the country’s bishops have called for peace and a recount of votes.
Archbishop Leopoldo Brenes Solorzano of Managua said that “people feel defrauded” over the November 9 election results, which favoured supporters of leftist Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.
In the elections, Ortega allies were declared winners in 94 of 146 municipalities, including the capital, Managua, and the second-largest city, Leon. But government opponents have charged that results in many cities were rigged, based on irregularities in tallies and the fact that the government excluded foreign and many local election observers.
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Posted on 23 November 2008 by nicaraguanpost
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) _ Nicaragua’s San Cristobal volcano is spewing ash and gas, provoking a shudder of small earthquakes.
The Nicaraguan Institute of Territorial Studies says the volcano has been erupting for two days, causing quakes of up to magnitude-4.
The institute says Saturday’s eruptions pose no imminent threat to the surrounding population.
The 5725-foot (1,745-meter) volcano is about 70 miles (110 kilometers) west of the capital, Managua.
It neighbors the Casitas volcano, whose lake burst open during Hurricane Mitch in 1998. Some 2,000 people were killed.
Posted on 21 November 2008 by nicaraguanpost
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Posted on 20 November 2008 by nicaraguanpost
MANAGUA - Waving sticks and hurling stones, thousands of protesters backing the leftist Sandinista party angrily took to the streets of Managua Tuesday to support the results of local elections earlier in the month that the opposition says President Daniel Ortega rigged to expand his power.
The opposition leader, Eduardo Montealegre, had called for a march through the capital in protest of the Nov. 9 poll, which he says the Sandinistas stole to deny him the mayoralty of Managua. But the progovernment forces, some of them federal employees released early from their jobs to join the fray, surrounded Montealegre’s backers, who then disbanded.
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Posted on 20 November 2008 by nicaraguanpost
Nicaragua hovered on the brink of fresh clashes tonight after disputed election results triggered a week of violent chaos. Supporters of the Sandinista government patrolled the capital, Managua, with rocks and clubs to deter the opposition from mobilising in the streets.
Opposition leaders accused the country’s president, Daniel Ortega, of rigging November 9 local elections in favour of Sandinista candidates and reviving authoritarianism in the impoverished central American nation.
Sandinista supporters armed with machetes, rocks and home-made mortars snuffed out opposition protests earlier this week, leaving dozens injured. For much of the trouble police were notably absent.
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Posted on 20 November 2008 by nicaraguanpost
MANAGUA — At a downtown traffic circle this week, a young man flanked by masked teens armed with rocks, machetes and mortars said the 350 members of the ”Sandinista Youth” under his command were willing to give their lives to “defend the revolution to the end.”
A block away, businesses inside MetroCentro — the country’s busiest shopping mall — closed and taped display cases to hide merchandise from potential looters.
A week of political street violence after the disputed Nov. 9 mayoral elections is likely to spread into the weekend as supporters of the Sandinista candidates who are loyal to President Daniel Ortega have been urged to take to the streets indefinitely to ”celebrate the resounding victory” and demand that the elections council make their win official.
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Posted on 18 November 2008 by nicaraguanpost
Managua, Nicaragua - Nicaragua’s capital was bracing for large demonstrations Tuesday by the ruling Sandinista party and the opposition after supporters of President Daniel Ortega blocked an important highway through Managua, forcing opposition leaders to seek refuge in a church.
The supporters of the Sandinista National Liberation Front cut off the Pan-American Highway and important streets in the capital Monday to block the movements of Eduardo Montealegre, who ran for mayor of Managua in November 9 elections and is now charging electoral fraud.
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Posted on 17 November 2008 by nicaraguanpost
- Nicaragua will produce 21.4 percent less coffee for export in the 2008/09 growing season compared with the previous cycle, the head of the country’s exporters association said on Saturday.
Nicaragua sees the 2008/09 coffee harvest, which began this month, at about 1.3 million 60-kg (132-pound) bags, coffee exporter Jose Angel Buitrago told Reuters at an annual coffee conference in Costa Rica.
Nicaragua closed its 2007/08 coffee cycle in September with about 1.6 million 60-kg bags of exports, a 37.1 percent jump from the 2006/07 season.
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