The Russian news agency “Sputnick” was the first to inform that Vladimir Putin’s government will be sending fifty T-72B1 combat tanks to Nicaragua as part of a bilateral technical-military cooperation agreement between the two countries. According to the Moscow-based source, the transaction has a price tag of $80 million US dollars; however, the National Assembly hasn’t approved any loans to cover this military expense.
Read MoreThe Government of Nicaragua announced today that it reached an agreement with indigenous leaders in the South Caribbean to lease an extensive portion of land in the region where the route of an inter-oceanic would pass
Read MoreFather Daniel Berrigan died on Saturday, just short of his 95th birthday. Berrigan was a poet, pacifist, educator, social activist, playwright and lifelong resister to what he called “American military imperialism.”
Read MoreStarting Wednesday, the Venezuelan opposition has been collecting signatures to request a referendum that would put an end to Nicolas Maduro’s presidency, not unlike the one held in 2004 when Hugo Chavez was president.
Read MoreOnce again they left their lands in order to defend them and demonstrate their rejection of the expropriations involved in the Nicaragua Grand Canal project, packed with more doubts than certainties.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan Army confirmed that the country acquired a considerable lot of military equipment and weaponry from Russia, among them T-721B1 tanks, as part of a plan to “modernize” of the military institution
Read MoreResidents of the communities around Lake Cocibolca (Lake of Nicaragua) share the same concern: the water level of the lake is dropping and they fear that “climate change” will dry it up completely, as happened to the Tisma wetlands and to the dam at Las Canoas.
Read MoreEarly next month, Brazil’s Senate will vote on whether to put Rousseff on trial on allegations of manipulating budget accounts. On Tuesday, Rousseff said attempts to impeach her constituted a “coup” and an “original sin.”
Read MoreBrazilian President Dilma Rousseff has a thorny uphill battle ahead in the Senate to avoid being burned at the stake of ” impeachment “, notes Ana Maria Pomi of dpa news.
Read MoreAt least a thousand Cubans forced their way today into Costa Rica at its southern border with Panama. They demand the right to transit towards the United States, their final destination, reported dpa news.
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