Nicaragua: Before and After the Social Security Heist
The repression unleashed this week by the Ortega shock troops operating under police protection reveals the regime’s fear of social protest. Here are four key points as to why.
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Nicaragua: Government Repression and Censorship in Response to Protests
The government of Commander Daniel Ortega responded to the protests over reforms to the Nicaraguan Institute of Social Security (INSS) with repression and aggressions against university students and journalists from national and international media.
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Peaceful Protests against Nicaraguan Social Security Reforms Violently Repressed
Violence broke out in Managua on Wednesday, April 18, when members of the Sandinista Youth deploying sticks, pipes and stones, along with the Riot Police forces, repressed a march of young people and adults. By Thursday the protests have spread to other cities.
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Nicaragua Chosen by US-Israel Company for Huge Cacao Plantation
The Israeli-U.S. company Bean & Co., that intends to plant 40,000 hectares (98,842 acres) of cacao all over the world, has chosen Nicaragua as one of the 18 countries where it will bring this vision to reality.
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Nicaraguan Government Says Forest Reserve Fire Extinguished
The Nicaraguan government announced Friday that the major fire has been put out in the Indio Maíz (southeastern) biological reserve, after ten days in which the flames destroyed more than 5,400 hectares of humid tropical forest.
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Fire in Nicaragua’s Indio Maiz Biological Reserve could spread to its western border
The fire in the Indio Maiz Biological Reserve that has devoured over 12,355 acres (5,116 hectares) of forestland marked seven days of destruction on Tuesday April 10th.
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Nicaragua: Masaya Volcano Website Nominated for a Prestigious Award
The website www.ge.com/digitalvolcano developed by a team of explorers under Sam Cossman has been nominated for a prestigious “Webby,” an award recognizing “the world’s best websites.” It allows the viewer to take a virtual tour of the Masaya Volcano, right up to the lava lake at its core.
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Social Media Increases Participation of Nicaraguan Youth in Social Justice Causes
A new study shows that the social networks in Nicaragua are the principal platforms used by youth to obtain news and to support social justice causes and mobilizations.
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Two Women Burned Alive in Nicaragua
Two rural women were tortured and burned alive in a town in the north of Nicaragua over a debt that wasn’t even theirs, police said Friday when they presented two confessed authors of the crime.
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Nicaragua Women Protest against Wave of Femicides
Relatives of femicide victims protested Tuesday in the Nicaraguan capital to demand that the government act to curb the deadly gender violence which since January has claimed the lives of 17 women in the country.
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