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.
Read MoreLast week we brought you “The Archaeological Damage Posed by the Nicaragua Canal Project,” as the topic of the US $50 billion mega-project has proven to be of much interest to readers on our mainly Cuba oriented website. Today we bring you another article on the canal, the result of an extensive study by the “Network for Democracy and Local Development,” first published by Envio magazine.
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The mega project to build an inter-oceanic canal in Nicaragua is being touted by the government of Daniel Ortega as the answer to development for the Central American country. At the same time warning signals come not only from environmentalists, social activists, farmers and economists, but also archeologists.
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Several hundred Nicaraguan feminists and human rights advocates marched on International Women’s Day on Sunday in downtown Managua, despite a siege by Special Forces of the National Police, reported dpa news.
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For days, I’ve been hearing comments about protests in Nicaragua that seem suspiciously ill-intentioned. Since I know Cuban leaders adore Daniel Ortega, frequently praising and paying tribute to him and his administration – I decided to conduct a search for news or opinion pieces about Nicaragua’s inter-oceanic canal project published in Cuba. My intention was not to dispel any doubts, but to reaffirm my confidence in our press.
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Violent incidents occurred today in an area of southern Nicaragua, where the army and police broke up a demonstration of farmers protesting against the construction of an interoceanic canal, unofficial sources told dpa news.
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