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Costa Rica denies meeting with Ortega

(posted March 1, 6:00 p.m.)- Costa Rica’s foreign ministry denies Nicaragua media reports that Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega are planning to meet along the border this week to discuss bilateral relations. Report of the...
March 2, 2012 · 1 Comment

Hostage negotiations fail in RAAN

(posted March 1, 11:30 a.m.)- Mestizo leaders in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) are claiming they are “no longer responsible for what might happen” following another failed effort to negotiate the release of a dozen hostages taken three weeks...
March 1, 2012 · No Comments

U.S. Military donates language lab

U.S. Military donates language lab

(posted Feb. 29, 11:55 a.m.)- The U.S. Military has donated a new $88,000 English-language lab to the Nicaragua Army to help Nicaraguan soldiers learn English so they can participate in international military initiatives such as the U.S. Southern Command’s Global...
February 29, 2012 · 1 Comment

Blackout affects 80% of country

(posted Feb. 28, 7:00 p.m.)- A nationwide blackout affected nearly 80% of the country’s 600,000 users this afternoon, according to energy company Disnorte- Dissur. The blackout, which put the country into darkness from shortly after 4 p.m., was caused by...
February 29, 2012 · 5 Comments

Miskito Nation blames gov’t, ALBA

Miskito Nation blames gov’t, ALBA

(posted Feb. 25, 5:30 p.m.)- The Mosquito Coast’s ancestral Council of Elders is calling on indigenous communities to “organize against the aggression and neutralize the actions of invasion, occupation, destruction of forests, land sales and illegal concession that the State...
February 25, 2012 · 8 Comments

Teonoste in talks with gov’t

Teonoste in talks with gov’t

(published Feb. 23, 6:40 p.m.)- TOLA—A week after sounding the alarm bells by accusing the Sandinista government of trying to confiscate 20 manzanas (34.5 acres) of their family’s land adjacent to their $2 million Eco-resort Punta Teonoste, the Bühler family...
February 23, 2012 · 2 Comments

Russia, Nicaragua team up in drug war

(posted Feb. 23, 5:30 p.m.)- The drug-war agreement signed between Nicaragua and Russia today could include a Russian-funded anti-narcotics training center in Nicaragua, according to media reports. The agreement was signed today in Managua between Nicaraguan Police Chief Aminta Granera...
February 23, 2012 · No Comments

EU: elections were a setback

(posted Feb. 22, 10:30 a.m.)- The Sandinista-dominated Supreme Electoral Council’s lack of neutrality and the “deterioration of transparency” in the electoral process left a lot to be desired in Nicaragua’s electoral democracy, according to the EU’s election mission’s report presented...
February 22, 2012 · No Comments

Magistrate Herrera dies of heart attack

(posted Feb 21, 8:10 a.m.)- Supreme Electoral Magistrate René Herrera Zúniga died of a heart attack early this morning, according to local press reports. Herrera had been battling pneumonia and other respiratory problems for several weeks prior to his heart...
February 21, 2012 · 1 Comment