The National Coalition for Democracy has named Luis Callejas, currently serving as deputy for the Independent Liberal Party (PLI), as their presidential candidate for the November 2016 general elections.
The leak of 11.4 million documents kept by the Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca, popularly known as the Panama Papers, has afforded the public access to thousands of Nicaragua-related files that were reviewed by a Confidencial journalistic team over the course of four months.
Following several months of uncertainty, Nicaragua’s Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) has officially convoked the national elections for November 6 and have published a calendar with the most important dates in the electoral process.
The following is a poem from Nicaraguan poet and novelist Gioconda Belli on the different trees of Managua, some live, some metallic.
The Group of 27 presented a manifesto titled “We will not allow a minority to hijack the country”, demanding that the government of Daniel Ortega hold free and transparent elections, “the only civilized means of choosing government authorities and defining the country’s course.”
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.
The 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
Once 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.
The 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
Residents 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.