The debate over the environmental viability of the Nicaragua Interoceanic Grand Canal has divided the scientific community into two camps. There are those scientists convinced that the megaproject will trigger an ecological catastrophe for Nicaragua, while a smaller group of researchers consider it a blessing for the second poorest nation in the Americas.
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The arrival of the first Cuban migrants in the U.S., although only a small fraction of the more than 6,000 Cubans still stranded in Costa Rica, symbolizes the collapse of that hateful wall raised by Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega to block their passage through Central America.
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The spokesman of the Commission for the Grand Canal of Nicaragua, Telemaco Talavera, assured the governing party website today that pre-construction work on the megaproject continues forward “with all the saftey and rigor that the case merits.”
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On Saturday, January 9, hundreds of peasants rallied in La Fonseca, Nueva Guinea, demanding that the law authorizing the construction of Nicaragua’s interoceanic canal, better known as Law 840, be repealed.
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Today we reproduce the analysis on Nicaragua and its leaders made by the team of Envio magazine, now in its 34th year of publication.
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Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, held a “working visit” to Ecuador and Nicaragua to address the immigration crisis that has stranded more than 2,000 Cubans in Central America, reported dpa news.
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Following news of the sexual abuse and rape charges brought against the country’s leader by Elvia Junieth Flores Castillo and Patricia Jeannette Ortega Prado, Zoilamérica Ortega Murillo, the adoptive daughter of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, decided to offer statements describing the sexual abuse she claims she suffered at the hands of the man who raised her and continues to be married to her mother, Rosario Murillo.
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The government of Cuba blamed the migratory policy of the United States towards the island for the situation of nearly 2,000 Cuban migrants who are stranded on the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua, according to a state television broadcast on Tuesday.
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Nicaragua militarized its southern border with Costa Rica following an attempt on Sunday by nearly two thousand Cubans immigrants to enter the Central American country’s territory, reported dpa news. The immigrants are mostly en route north to the United States to take advantage of the Cuban Ajustment Act.
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Wang Jing, owner of the Chinese consortium that is to build and operate the Nicaragua canal, has suffered considerable financial losses, Ivan Olivares reported today on the website Confidencial.com.ni.
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