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ALBA takes a swing at OAS, IACHR

(posted June 4, 11:10 a.m.)- Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro said the leftwing countries of ALBA (the Bolivarian Alliance for Our Americas) will take advantage of this week’s General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Bolivia to...
June 4, 2012 · No Comments


ALBA monument occupies historic park

ALBA monument occupies historic park

Friends and family of slain newspaper publisher Pedro Joaquin Chamorro are decrying the Sandinista government’s unexplained efforts to transform the park dedicated in his honor into a monument celebrating ALBA, the Venezuelan-led “Bolivarian Alliance for Our Americas.” “They are trying...
May 29, 2012 · 2 Comments


Is ALBANISA exporting oil to El Salvador?

Is ALBANISA exporting oil to El Salvador?

A mysterious oil spill at Puerto Sandino during Semana Santa has leaked sticky evidence of what is apparently a secretive and lucrative oil-exporting business that ALBA de Nicaragua (ALBANISA) is running on the side, according to an investigative report published...
May 2, 2012 · 2 Comments


Are Chinese realizing Bolivar’s ‘Supreme Dream’?

Are Chinese realizing Bolivar’s ‘Supreme Dream’?

(posted April 29, 10:20 p.m.)- South American liberator Simón Bolívar must have tossed and turned in his sleep; apparently he had reoccurring dreams of the Chinese building an oil refinery in Nicaragua. The so-called “Supreme Dream of Bolívar” oil refinery...
April 30, 2012 · 2 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


Guevara named head of Central Bank

(posted Feb. 14, 10:40 a.m.)- The rumors about ouster of Central Bank President Antenor Rosales are true. President Daniel Ortega this morning named Finance Minister Alberto Guevara as the new head of the Central Bank, according to a government release....
February 14, 2012 · 1 Comment


Rumors swirl over Central Bank shakeup

(posted Feb. 12, 12:15 p.m.)- The job status of Central Bank president Antenor Rosales is apparently on shaky ground. The opposition daily La Prensa is reporting rumors of his resignation and El Nuevo Diario notes that Rosales’ name did not...
February 12, 2012 · No Comments


Ortega pitches Bank of ALBA

Ortega pitches Bank of ALBA

  Bad credit? No credit? No problem! President Daniel Ortega is putting on his banker’s visor and taking time off from denouncing the evils of savage capitalism to try to raise startup capital for the newly announced Bank of ALBA,...
February 10, 2012 · 4 Comments


How serious are threats of Iran, Hezbollah?

How serious are threats of Iran, Hezbollah?

Analysis The fallout from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador last month continues to reverberate loudly in Washington, and could mark what some think is the beginning of a geopolitical tidal shift in the military-industrial...
February 7, 2012 · 3 Comments


Ortega peddles canal to ALBA

(posted Feb. 6, 7:00 a.m.)-President Daniel Ortega’s renewed enthusiasm for the long-frustrated Nicaraguan Canal project was on display again last weekend in Caracas, when he asked the member countries of the Venezuelan-propped Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) for backing....
February 6, 2012 · 6 Comments


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