Nicaragua Alert
After a Year of Ortega, How Is Nicaragua Faring?
Date: 01/14/2008
January 15, 2008
Managua, Nicaragua
On Jan. 10, 62-year-old Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega celebrated his first year back in office as Nicaragua’s president and his first year back in power in a peacetime Nicaragua after his troubled first rule from 1985 to 1990.
Things are different this time around, however, and Ortega is struggling to maintain popular support.
Read OnDespite Ortega’s Posturing, Nicaragua Still Safe, Attractive, and Attention-Worthy
Date: 12/20/2007
December 21, 2007
Managua, Nicaragua
It’s been an interesting year (to say the least) in Nicaragua. In January, Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega was inaugurated as the country’s president. For better or worse, he’s been finding his way through the political world since then.
Read OnNicaragua’s Tourist Highways Get a Makeover
Date: 11/13/2007
November 14, 2007
Managua, Nicaragua
I have to say that when I was in Nicaragua earlier this year, living in San Juan del Sur, I loved everything about Nicaragua…except the atrocious roads. Although there’s not much I wouldn’t do to visit a beautiful beach, swerving from side to side and into the ditch to avoid potholes lost its charm for me a long time ago.
Read OnNicaragua One of Safest Countries in Central America
Date: 11/11/2007
November 12, 2007
Managua, Nicaragua
Good news for Nicaragua. It remains one of the safest countries in Central America, according to police commissioner Aminta Granera. The latest statistics suggest that Nicaragua is likely to close out the year with 14 homicides for every 100,000 people, nearly half the average of the rest of the region.
Read OnOrtega Promises Full Electricity for Nicaragua by December
Date: 11/01/2007Can it actually be true? The blackouts that have plagued Nicaragua for months will be a thing of the past by Dec. 1, President Daniel Ortega has declared at a speech in front of the National Assembly.
Read OnRains Are Over but Relief Efforts Needed in Nicaragua
Date: 10/25/2007Sunny skies finally returned to much of Nicaragua this week, giving people a break from the constant rains and helping aid relief efforts in the northern highlands. Storms have pelted the prime coffee growing region for 50 days. They have dumped more rain here in past weeks than Hurricane Mitch did in 1998.
Read OnA Brighter Nicaragua is on the Horizon
Date: 10/17/2007This is brilliant news…really. It seems the energy crisis in Nicaragua may be running its course. Three run-down power plants are close to being fixed, and as excess rains fuel the hydroelectric plant at Lake Apanas, the government expects to cut the energy deficit by more than two-thirds in November.
Read OnFlooding Rains Put Northwest Nicaragua on Red Alert
Date: 10/14/2007When it rains…it really rains. President Daniel Ortega put the town of Chinandega and surrounding parts of northwestern Nicaragua on red alert over this past weekend as heavy rains destroyed roads and homes, forcing nearly 4,500 people to be evacuated. The government warned that León, Carazo, and Esteli are in slightly less danger from the rains, which have pelted the country for a week.
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