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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreTwo 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.
Read MoreRelatives 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.
Read MoreNicaraguan poet Gioconda Belli expressed her fear Tuesday that the Government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo “criminalizes” the right to criticism and freedom of expression through social networks, approving laws similar to those of Venezuela.
Read MoreIn Nicaragua, official policy of President Daniel Ortega and his wife and Vice President Rosario Murillo applauds teen pregnancies, considering them a symbol of “prosperity”.
Read MoreI perfectly remember where I was a dozen years ago when I opened up a newsletter from the World Council of Churches and read that heading: “Where God is a Man, Men think they are Gods”.
Read MoreAfter hundreds of women have died at the hands of machista violence in Nicaragua over the past five years, Vice President Rosario Murillo has declared that she is “concerned” about these cases.
Read MoreA girl named Alejandra stands before me – tall, shy, pretty, speaking in short phrases, dimples flashing when she smiles. If this girl lived in Mexico City or Havana, even without economic resources, she would have been able to interrupt her pregnancy under safe and hygienic conditions.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan environmental group “Fundacion del Rio” makes known its concern over the road building project into the Indio-Maiz biological reserve that will promote further deforestation and colonization.
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