Nicaragua
Carlos Fuentes-Uncle Sam, stay home
May 18, 2012
Adapted from a speech given by Carlos Fuentes in May 1988 at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
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May 18, 2012
Two Newsome High School students are hosting a collection drive for impoverished children in Nicaragua.
Miami Cigar & Company to release Nestor Miranda Grand Reserve 2012
May 17, 2012
Following in the footsteps of the Cigar Aficionado 91-rated Nestor Miranda Grand Reserve, Miami Cigar & Company is set to release the 2012 edition at IPCPR in August.
Nicaragua: wildife viewing on the San Juan river – audio slideshow
May 17, 2012
Nicaragua’s San Juan river was once one of the most important in the world; now it is a peaceful waterway surrounded by jungle, with amazing bird and animal life, but very few tourists.
Ticos protest presence of Sandinista Youth along border
May 17, 2012
The Government of Costa Rica today sent a letter to Nicaragua’s Foreign Ministry expressing its “most energetic protest” against the Sandinista government’s dispatch of more Sandinista Youth to occupy a zone of disputed borderland claimed by both countries.
Study finds java drinkers live longer
May 17, 2012
Yoshi Kato tests coffee for aroma, texture and taste during a contest of Nicaraguan coffee growers in Managua, Nicaragua, in 2003.
Luke Zehr to study in Nicaragua
May 17, 2012
Luke Zehr of Tiskilwa, a student at Goshen College, is participating in the Goshen College Study-Service Term in Nicaragua during this summer, along with 22 other students.
Gay activist threatens to ‘out’ Nicaraguan lawmakers
May 16, 2012
Nicaragua’s new Family Code defines marriage as a union between man and woman; to pressure and embarrass the lawmakers gay-rights activist Marvin Mayorga threatens to “out” 20 closeted congressmen.
Remittances prop Nicaragua’s economy
May 15, 2012
While the first family’s political project is subsidized by a wellspring of Venezuelan petrodollars, most Nicaraguan households are relying on foreign subsidies of another type: remittance money sent home by family members working abroad.
With burial, Nicaragua party tries to create hero
May 12, 2012
In this May 2, 2012 file photo, Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega speaks during a midnight funeral of the late Tomas Borge, the last surviving founder of the Sandinista guerrilla movement, in Managua, Nicaragua.
