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A little help from Ortega’s friends
Venezuela just became the proud owner of a Nicaraguan television channel, Telenica (Canal 8 ). The Venezuelans themselves confirmed to El Nuevo Diario that the money for the purchase of the channel...
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Job growth
Apply within. (Via Wikimedia Commons.) If you’re looking to suckle at the teat of government largess, I hear Nicaragua is hiring. La Prensa reports that since Ortega took office in 2006, the government...
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Stronghold crumbling
Click for gallery. Vandals are destroying the Fortín de Acosasco. The fort was the last stronghold of Somoza’s forces outside Leon, Nicaragua, during the 1979 fighting. For many years, it was also used...
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Insulza is not the issue
With its typically retrograde, myopic, Inside-the-Beltway perspective on Latin America, The Washington Post lobbed a grenade a couple weeks ago when it strenuously objected to a second six-year term...
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The gringo speaks
Eric Volz, the American who in 2007 was convicted and later acquitted of the murder of his ex-girlfriend in Nicaragua, is publishing a book about his ordeal. I’ve always had mixed feelings about the...
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Nicaragua has chosen its first African-American Miss Nicaragua in 18-year-old Scharllette Allen, a Caribbean beauty from Blue Fields. [link] Related posts: Reality is just so much less interesting
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The Fat Man is back
Boo. Corrupt, sleazy Latin American politicians are like the proverbial horror movie monster that, no matter how many times you shoot it or set it on fire or run it over with a car, always come back...
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While the usual suspects up north try to drum up panic over the possibility of an insidious Iranian incursion into the American continent, the always-excellent Tim Rogers just went ahead and asked...
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