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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 · 2 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


Can CELAC pick up where ALBA sputtered

Can CELAC pick up where ALBA sputtered

Analysis. Undeterred by the coup in Honduras that stunted its growth in 2009, the Venezuelan-led Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) will take another stab at creating an alternative hemispheric forum during this weekend’s inaugural powwow of the Community of...
November 29, 2011 · 5 Comments


What’s the future of ALBA?

What’s the future of ALBA?

MANAGUA – For the past five years, President Daniel Ortega and his Sandinista officials have talked about ALBA in fanciful and religious terms, comparing Venezuelan aid to the “project of Christ” and suggesting it’s somehow helping to build “the Kingdom...
November 2, 2011 · 7 Comments


Breaking News

  • Ortega’s reforms OK’d by Congress

    (posted May 15, 7:00 p.m.)- To the surprise of nobody, the Sandinista-dominated National Assembly today approved President Daniel Ortega’s electoral reform package proposed last month after weeks of breathless hype by First Lady Rosario Murillo. The vote was passed with…

  • IMF: Nicaragua’s economy must grow faster

    (posted May 15, 12:50 p.m.)-Despite Nicaragua’s strong economic recovery from the financial crisis of 2008-09, the country must grow its economy even faster to reduce poverty, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Following a nine-day IMF visit to the…

  • FAO: Nicaragua needs to decentralize response to malnutrition

    (posted May 14, 1:30 p.m.)- The Nicaraguan government needs to decentralize its efforts to provide food security and combat malnutrition, which affects 19% of the population—one of the highest levels in Latin America, according to the UN’s Food and Agricultural…

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