Nicaragua News

Nicaragua's Caribbean coast faced a battering by high winds and heavy rains Friday, as remnants of hurricane Ida wrecked homes and officials warned as many as 40,000 could be affected by the storm.

This NOAA satellite image taken Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 at 12:00 a.m. EST shows cloud cover streaming northward into the Gulf of Mexico as tropical storm Ida weakens over Central America.

Ida has weakened to a tropical depression with 35 mph top winds as it sweeps over Nicaragua.

Tropical Storm Ida strengthened off the coast of Nicaragua on Wednesday as heavy rains forced a Caribbean island to evacuate and the Central American nation, fearing devastating mudslides, was put on hurricane watch.

MIAMI a 'An Air Force plane was en route Wednesday to check out a tropical depression thata TMs nearing tropical storm strength off the eastern coast of Nicaragua.

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Vicente Padilla has accidentally shot himself in the leg at a target range in Nicaragua.

Tropical Depression 11 has formed in the southwestern Caribbean Sea, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Managua, Nov 3 The Nicaraguan media praised on Tuesday the humanitarian work by Cuban specialists from the "All with Voice" brigade, which is conducting a study to detect cases of disabled people in the country.

The U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua said Saturday that he sees no need to apologize for criticizing a court ruling opening the way for the possible re-election of leftist President Daniel Ortega.

Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega addresses the 62nd United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters September 25, 2007 in New York City.

"He should leave Nicaragua," labor leader Gustavo Porras said of Callahan. Porras spoke outside the Embassy as several hundred protesters waved red flags and set off firecrackers.

The Nicaraguan Congress on Wednesday narrowly rejected an initiative to force a debate on whether to annul a hotly disputed court ruling allowing President Daniel Ortega to seek re-election. The vote in the National Assembly's controlling commission went along party lines with congressional leader Rene Nunez - a member of Ortega's leftist ...

Managua, Oct 27 The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America shows concrete achievements in Nicaragua with its development projects, a source form the sector sustained.

Nicaraguans are undergoing a tense situation, after threats to President Daniel Ortega's government by opposition sectors of turning to violence to try to reverse a Supreme Court of Justice decision.

The Nicaraguan health ministry reported 1,752 confirmed cases of dengue fever since July, with the majority of cases in Managua and the department of Masaya, and some reported in other areas.

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By Jose Adan Silva MANAGUA - If they could, about 60 percent of Nicaraguans under 30 would go to live abroad, according to studies on migration, which find that the country's chronic poverty is the main reason for wanting to migrate.

A $20 million credit line will channel funds to the financial system for onlending to micro and mid-sized productive enterprises, which is to be used to help the continuity of the flow of credit to Nicaraguan enterprises that have been affected by the international financial crisis.

Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega addresses the 62nd United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters September 25, 2007 in New York City.

A huge iron statue looms over the Nicaraguan capital, Managua. It represents the figure of Augusto Sandino, the 1930s national hero who fought against what was seen as North American imperialism.