Nicaragua

Some more details for everyone - Granada, Nicaragua

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Liz and Katie AND Dan, running around in Costa Rica and Nicaragua

León - Leon, Leon, Nicaragua

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Leon, Leon, Nicaragua After two days in Granada, finally made it to León. Somewhat like Granada in the style of architecture, though the use of color here is definitely toned down a bit. A bit more conservative. Also, really really hot. Ive been staying at the hostal albergue which has been nice because my friends from Ometepe are here as well, and we´re the...

More desperate luxury in Granada - Granada, Nicaragua

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Granada, Nicaragua After a couple of nights of poor sleep due to the extreme heat, we agreed that we needed to splash out and get digs with air-conditioning, and we´ve hardly left the room since! Truth is that despite Granada being a very "cute" colonial city, we just don´t like it much. We find the locals are trained by habit to prey upon tourists. If you´re...

Latin American summit confronts hunger crisis

Workers World news online (Free subscription) | yesterday

With the theme"Sovereignty and Food Security: Food for Life," delegations from15 countries met in Managua, Nicaragua, on May 7 to discuss and plan strategies to confront the serious hunger crisis that is affecting the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Tonight's Rattler Starting Pitcher (5/15)

Rattler Radio (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008

RH JUAN RAMIREZ: Signed as a non-drafted free agent out of Nicaragua by Seattle in July 2005. DOWN IN VENEZUELA: Ramirez made his professional debut pitching for the Aguirre in the Venezuelan Summer League in 2006. He went 5-1 with a 1.66ERA in 14 games (13 starts) ON TO EVERETT: Ramirez made 15 starts for Seattle’s Northwest League affiliate in 2007. He was 3-7 with a 4.30 ERA for the AquaSox....

RailHawks have a shot at 2009 CONCACAF Champions Cup

Triangle Soccer Fanatics (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008

The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) announced the format of the 2008 CONCACAF Champions League today. 24 teams from Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Pamana, the Caribbean and the United States will take part in the tournament that will begin in late August and conclude in April of 2009. The...

• CONCACAF Champions League details announced - Seattle Times
• Concacaf Champions League field revield - My Soccer Blog
• See the 4 articles on the same subject

Latin America File: Transport workers clash with police in Nicaragua as strike enters 2nd week, Ortega grants asylum to FARC groupies wounded in raid

Once Upon a Time in the West (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

Nicaragua's nine-day-old transportation strike turned violent yesterday when workers clashed with riot police in the town of Las Maderas, 45 kilometers east of Managua. The neo-Sandinista regime, in what is clearly the most serious internal challenge to its 15-month rule to date, has rejected demands from truckers and taxi cab operators to lower the cost of fuel by the equivalent of three dollars per...

We are in Granada! - Granada, Granada, Nicaragua

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Liz and Katie AND Dan, running around in Costa Rica and Nicaragua

The continuing story - San Isidro, Nicaragua

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Jump to the full entry & travel map San Isidro, Nicaragua Hey everybody, Me and kirk have just been staying in town lately.  Right now there's a huge national transportation strike going on so we cant get around anywhere unless we rent a car.  Needless to say, we're on our way to Costa Rica right now, staying in Granada for the night.  The people are getting restless and today...

Nicaragua’s Great Leap Forward

OTB News (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008

The country's ex-Marxist president says that the economic basket case can become the bread basket of Latin America, precisely because its farms are so backward Share This

Peacebuilding in Central America: Reproducing the Sources of Conflict?

Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008

The United Nations and other international agencies conducted three major post-conflict peacebuilding operations in central America in the 1990s: in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. Like the many other international peacebuilding missions that were deployed during the 1990s, the operations in Central America aimed to assist local actors in the implementation of peace settlements after civil...

Nicaragua's Great Leap Forward

Time (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008

In Nicaragua's impoverished countryside, peasants toil under the sun using the same farming techniques as their ancestors did 300 years ago. Shuffling through small plots of land, farmers use a stick to poke holes in the ground into which seeds are dropped, before scraping the dirt back into place with their foot. Then it's time to pray for rain and hope God delivers consistently through the...

Forced luxury to Granada - Granada, Granada, Nicaragua

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Granada, Granada, Nicaragua After a week of intolerable Leon heat, and a national transportation strike with no end in sight, we decided that we needed to escape Leon (despite liking it very much, it's just TOO hot right now.) Our only solution was a private shuttle service which runs directly from Leon to Granada. It was $15 each instead of $3 each, but I...

Staying in Leon-by intention and against our will - Leon, Nicaragua

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Leon, Nicaragua We´ve decided to spend a week in Leon to study more Spanish (much needed!). Almost simultaneously, the transit unions decided to go on strike to protest rising gas prices, so now we couldn´t leave even if we wanted to. No solution seems near at hand, so we may end up studying here for quite some time. Fine by us, except that it is absolutely...

ENDING STRIKE * Nicaragua - Government signs accord to

trucks world news (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008

The Nicaraguan government Friday signed an accord with the country's transport industry to end a national strike triggered by high fuel prices Managua,Nicaragua - Xinhua -9 May 2008: -- ... According to the accord, the Nicaraguan government will grant transport companies a discount of 30 U.S. cents on each gallon of diesel for buses, taxis and trucks that operate within Nicaragua...

Central America 2007 - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in Latin America report

rupali | 12/31/2007

This report provides information on Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama. Each country has its own chapter and covers the following subjects. Key Statistics Market and Industry Overviews Regulatory Environment Major Players (fixed and mobile) Infrastructure Mobile Voice and Data Markets Internet, VoIP Broadband (DSL, cable, wireless) Convergence Executive Summary...