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U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua where his mandate is entirely different: to work in cooperation and support of the Sandinista government.
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
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Nicaragua Newspaper, The Nica Times Online Edition,
U.S. Envoy Tackles Tricky Relationship–MANAGUA, Nicaragua – When Robert J. Callahan worked in the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa in the early 1980s, he represented an aggressive U.S. administration that sought to undermine Nicaragua’s Sandinista government by arming and training counterrevolutionary insurgents based in Honduras. As the political gods would have it, 25 years later Callahan is back in the neighborhood, only this time as the U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua where his mandate is entirely different: to work in cooperation and support of the Sandinista government.
Nicaragua has a “agro” revolution going on!
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua – Carlos Corea sits in his tiny, windowless office donning a bright pink Sandinista cap and talking in rapid “Spanglish” about how an agricultural revolution is taking place in Nicaragua’s countryside.
Nicaragua News
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
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RIO BLANCO, Matagalpa – Controversial plans to build a $200 million Iranian-financed hydroelectric dam in Nicaragua’s northern highlands have fueled U.S. concerns over the Islamic country’s push into Nicaragua and staunch opposition from local ranchers who say the project would flood them off their productive lands.
basin vow to block plans for the Iranian-funded hydroelectric dam, which they say would devastate one of the region’s most productive agricultural communities.
Tropical Storm pummels Nicaragua killing one
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
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Full Story: Tropical Storm pummels Nicaragua killing one - Worldnews.com
: Tropical Storm Alma, the first cyclone of the Americas hurricane season, slammed into Nicaragua’s Pacific coast on Thursday, killing one person as winds toppled trees and ripped roofs off flimsy homes. Torrential rain fell in this colonial western city as Alma whipped up sustained winds near 65 mph (100 kph) and even higher gusts. The former capital of Nicaragua — home to around 150,000 people — was without electricity and…
Nicaragua worries about the economy
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua – With international oil prices reaching astronomical new heights, and a Nicaraguan government that has failed to respond with any coherent policies to mollify the impact on the country, Nicaragua could be heading for its worst economic depression in 70 years, according to Francisco Aguirre, president of the National Assembly’s Economic, Production and Budget Committee.
Nicaragua’s economy continues a downward spiral
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
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Nicaragua Newspaper, The Nica Times Online Edition
MANAGUA – The deteriorating economic situation for many Nicaraguan families could become a spark that ignites a dangerous social conflict here if the Sandinista government does not do more to respond to the needs of the people, according to renowned economist and opposition political leader Edmundo “Mundo” Jarquin.
Tim Rogers | Nica Times Jarquin, a leading intellectual leader and former presidential candidate for the left-wing Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS), said he thinks it is “inevitable” that Nicaragua’s slumbering civil society will begin to mobilize against the government if the socio-economic situation continues its downward spiral from the first year of President Daniel Ortega’s administration – a period, he claims, that has led to more poverty and unemployment in Nicaragua.
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It’s the Economy, Stupid: Economist Edmundo Jarquin warns that economic problems could prompt civil society to mobilize.
