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Postcard From Managua: Ortega vs. the Feminists

President Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua's macho and mustachioed Sandinista commandante of the 1970s and '80s, may claim the mantle of revolutionary "new man," but Latin America's feminists insist Ortega is a dirty ...

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Related Topix: Nicaragua, World News, Central America, Activism, Honduras

Tue Oct 14, 2008

Guardian Unlimited

Where Nicaragua's enemies hide

The Sandinista government is betraying the hopes of its former supporters with an authoritarian crackdown Comments Conor Foley For those of a certain generation, Nicaragua's Sandinista movement has a real ...

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Mon Oct 13, 2008

Guardian Unlimited

Oxfam targeted as Nicaragua attacks 'trojan horse' NGOs

Police raided the offices of two pressure groups, carting away computers and files, and a further 15 organisations are under investigation for alleged money-laundering and subversion.

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Sun Oct 12, 2008

PR-inside.com

Police raids of NGOs provoke outcry in Nicaragua

Police raids of two non-governmental organizations critical of Nicaragua's leftist government provoked an outcry Sunday from opposition leaders who called them a throwback to dictatorship.

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Fri Oct 10, 2008

hosted Reuters | Reuters

Crisis is God punishing U.S.: Nicaragua's Ortega

MANAGUA (Reuters) - Nicaragua's leftist President Daniel Ortega, a U.S. foe since the Cold War, said God was punishing the United States with the financial crisis for trying to impose its economic principles on poor countries.

"It's incredible that in the most powerful country in the world, which spends billions of dollars on brutal wars ... people do not have enough money to stay in their homes," former Marxist guerrilla Ortega said in a speech late on Thursday.

"God is punishing the United States," for imposing flawed economic policies on developing countries around the world, said Ortega, who first governed Nicaragua in the 1980s when his Sandinista government was locked in a war with U.S.-backed Contra rebels.

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Related Topix: Nicaragua, Central America, World News,

Canada NewsWire

Nicaragua - Political and judicial harassment of NGOS threatens...

MONTREAL, Oct. 10 /CNW Telbec/ - Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns a newly-launched interior ministry investigation into 17 non-governmental organisations for alleged "embezzlement" and ...

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Wed Oct 08, 2008

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Cindy Karp; Time Life Pictures/Getty Images Violeta Barrios de Chamorro

Chamorro, who was born into a wealthy Nicaraguan family , received much of her early education in the U.S. states of Texas and Virginia.

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Related Topix: Journalism

Mon Oct 06, 2008

The Miami Herald

Ortega targeting his ex-comrades

With Nicaragua's traditional right-wing forces divided, President Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo are focusing their efforts on squelching opposition from their former comrades on the left, who they ...

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Related Topix: Nicaragua, World News, Central America, Riot

Sun Oct 05, 2008

Business Respect

Nicaragua: Government claims zero corruption

A News item from Business Respect, Issue Number 138, dated 2 Oct 2008 Nicaragua's Comptroller General has said that no public officials have been punished for corruption during the first 18 months of President ...

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Fri Oct 03, 2008

Inside Costa Rica

Nicaraguan President Accused Of Persecuting Journalists

A Nicaraguan journalist says the administration of President Daniel Ortega is persecuting his organization for its criticism of the government.

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Wed Oct 01, 2008

Inside Costa Rica

Costa Rica Given More Time To Ratify Free Trade Deal

October 1, today, was the deadline for Costa Rica to ratify and join the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the United States .

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Related Topix: Costa Rica, Central America, World News

Mon Sep 29, 2008

Defense News

Russia to Help Nicaragua Fix, Update Arsenal

Russia will help Nicaragua repair or update its aging military arsenal, most of which was furnished by the former Soviet Union in the 1980s, Moscow's envoy to Managua said.

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Related Topix: Nicaragua, World News, Central America

Sat Sep 27, 2008

Detroit Free Press

Around the world

Russia's ambassador to Nicaragua said Wednesday that his country will replace the Nicaraguan army's aging weaponry.

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Related Topix: Hugo Chavez

Thu Sep 25, 2008

The Moscow Times

Chavez Arrives to $1Bln Welcome

Chavez Arrives to $1Bln Welcome The Kremlin had a warm welcome waiting for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Thursday, in the form of a $1 billion loan for arms purchases for the Latin American leader who has ...

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Related Topix: Hugo Chavez, Vladimir Putin, World News, Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Central America

Wed Sep 24, 2008

Newsday.com

Russian ambassador offers to modernize Nicaragua's aging Russian-made arms

Ambassador Igor S. Kondrashev said there are no plans, however, to expand the Central American country's military arsenal.

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Related Topix: Nicaragua, World News, US Military, US Navy, Central America

Tue Sep 23, 2008

Inside Costa Rica

Sandinista Priest Presiding Over UN

Miguel d'Escoto is coming back to haunt Washington. The foreign affairs minister of Nicaragua for eleven years and a Sandinista priest, d'Escoto is now presiding over the 192-member body that is the United ...

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Sun Sep 21, 2008

Prensa Latina

UN General Assembly Begins

United Nations, Sep 16 The 63rd UN General Assembly, presided over by Nicaraguan diplomat and priest Miguel D" Escoto, officially starts Tuesday an intensive program to extend until 2009.

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Fri Sep 19, 2008

Inside Costa Rica

Venezuela Aid to Nicaragua Is Missing, Lawmaker Says

By Eric Sabo MANAGUA - - Nicaraguan opposition lawmaker Victor Tinoco said that millions of dollars in Venezuelan aid is going to President Daniel Ortega rather than the country's poor.

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Related Topix: Nicaragua, World News, Central America

Thu Sep 18, 2008

680News

Rice says Russia on path to isolation, irrelevance after Georgia invasion

In scathing criticism of Moscow, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Russia Thursday that its policies have put it on a path to isolation and irrelevance.

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Related Topix: Condoleezza Rice

Free Republic

Russia seeks close ties with US ex-foe Nicaragua

Russia offered aid to the leftist government of Nicaragua on Wednesday, a former Cold War ally, as part of a push to increase its influence in Latin America after years on the sidelines in the region.

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Related Topix: Hugo Chavez, Chicago Metro

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