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Poll: employment, cost of living top Nicaraguans’ concerns

Despite Nicaragua’s steady economic expansion in recent years, a growing number of Nicaraguans—particularly non-Sandinistas— are feeling pinched in the wallet, anxious about finding employment, and worried about making ends meet,...

Living in a house of cards

Opinion. A house of cards is a structure created by stacking playing cards one on top of the other. It is also an expression that refers to an empty structure...

New footbridge keeps rural community connected

Joined by the community of El Dorado, the Estelí Rotary Club and the non-governmental organization Bridges to Prosperity, U.S. Ambassador Phyllis Powers last weekend helped inaugurate the newly constructed El...

Is Nicaragua’s renewable energy revolution maxing out?

The rapid growth of Nicaragua’s renewable energy sector took another spin forward last week when British-funded company Globeleq inaugurated a 44-megawatt wind project in Rivas. The inauguration of the Eolo...

Don’t let strangers in your house

Opinion. He must have smelled my novelty as I walked through Granada’s streets from the Central Park toward Calle Saint Lucia to view my apartment for the first time. As...

Politics

  • Rights activists call journalist’s deportation illegal, authoritarian

    Rights activists call journalist’s deportation illegal, authoritarian

    (updated May 13, 3:15 p.m.)- Nicaragua’s Center for Human Rights (CENIDH) is blasting last weekend’s deportation of Chilean photojournalist Héctor Retamal as an “authoritarian” and...
    May 13, 2013 · 4 Comments

  • Nicaragua’s Ortega plays opposing roles at weekend summits

    Nicaragua’s Ortega plays opposing roles at weekend summits

    May 6, 2013 · 17 Comments

  • Obama promises renewed ties during summit

    Obama promises renewed ties during summit

    May 4, 2013 · 6 Comments

Features

  • Poll: employment, cost of living top Nicaraguans’ concerns

    Poll: employment, cost of living top Nicaraguans’ concerns

    Despite Nicaragua’s steady economic expansion in recent years, a growing number of Nicaraguans—particularly non-Sandinistas— are feeling pinched in the wallet, anxious about finding employment, and...
    May 22, 2013 · 1 Comment

  • Soccer players take shot at sex ed

    Soccer players take shot at sex ed

    May 22, 2013 · 1 Comment

  • Pastora: Costa Rica loses big with new canal route

    Pastora: Costa Rica loses big with new canal route

    May 16, 2013 · 5 Comments


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Interviews

  • Nicaraguan businessman recounts abuses in Esteli raids

    Nicaraguan businessman recounts abuses in Esteli raids

    After 45 years of toiling as an entrepreneur to develop a successful chain of family-owned hardware stores in Estelí, Roberto Moncada, 69, watched in horror...
    May 15, 2013 · 7 Comments

  • Mayangna: gov’t finally responding to Bosawas crisis

    Mayangna: gov’t finally responding to Bosawas crisis

    May 9, 2013 · 3 Comments

  • Granada’s adopted son returns home

    Granada’s adopted son returns home

    April 25, 2013 · No Comments

Business/Travel

  • Is Nicaragua’s renewable energy revolution maxing out?

    Is Nicaragua’s renewable energy revolution maxing out?

    The rapid growth of Nicaragua’s renewable energy sector took another spin forward last week when British-funded company Globeleq inaugurated a 44-megawatt wind project in Rivas....
    May 20, 2013 · 10 Comments

  • Nicaragua’s Ave Maria becomes Keiser University

    Nicaragua’s Ave Maria becomes Keiser University

    May 9, 2013 · No Comments

  • Petrocaribe eyes future without Chavez

    Petrocaribe eyes future without Chavez

    May 7, 2013 · 2 Comments


Blogs/Opinion

  • Living in a house of cards

    Living in a house of cards

    Opinion. A house of cards is a structure created by stacking playing cards one on top of the other. It is also an expression that...
    May 22, 2013 · 25 Comments

  • Don’t let strangers in your house

    Don’t let strangers in your house

    May 18, 2013 · 11 Comments

  • The importance and challenges of learning Spanish

    The importance and challenges of learning Spanish

    May 14, 2013 · 15 Comments

Community News

  • New footbridge keeps rural community connected

    New footbridge keeps rural community connected

    Joined by the community of El Dorado, the Estelí Rotary Club and the non-governmental organization Bridges to Prosperity, U.S. Ambassador Phyllis Powers last weekend helped...
    May 21, 2013 · 1 Comment

  • Nicaragua’s pocoyo: the master of camouflage

    Nicaragua’s pocoyo: the master of camouflage

    May 20, 2013 · 3 Comments

  • Momotombo on tour with new music

    Momotombo on tour with new music

    May 15, 2013 · No Comments


Breaking News

  • US donates drug-detection equipment

    (posted May 21, 9:00 a.m.)- Under the aegis of the U.S.-backed anti-narcotics effort known as the Central American Regional Security Initiative (CARSI), the U.S. government…

  • US missionary drowns in Nicaragua

    A 22-year-old U.S. missionary who drowned last week off Nicaragua’s Pacific coast is being laid to rest on Saturday in his hometown in Kentucky. Nathan…

  • U.S. donates parachutes to Nicaraguan Army

    The U.S. military detachment at the U.S. Embassy in Managua today donated $96,000 worth of parachute equipment to the Nicaraguan Army’s Special Operations Unit. The…

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