Confirmation of the Organization of American State’s intention to send a belated small electoral observation team for Nicaragua’s November 5th local elections generated widely different reactions from the Nicaraguan opposition.
Read MoreThe African palm production company, Agrodesarrollo S.A. has violated environmental norms intended to protect Nicaragua’s natural resources according to an investigation carried out by the online environmental magazine “Mongabay Latam”*. The company, which maintains plantations of African Palm over a vast extension of land in the North Caribbean Autonomous Region, has been linked to Jorge Granera Sacasa, brother of Aminta Granera, chief of the National Police. The probe yielding this information included examination of official documents, a visit to the affected zone, and interviews with functionaries of the regional governments.
Read MoreEvery day we read about the marvels that are coming to Managua to alleviate the blockages and traffic jams: overpasses, widening of the Juan Pablo II highway, bicycle lanes, etc. It all sounds lovely, but the Mayor’s office has to turn its eyes towards how to maintain the functionality of these modernized, widened roadways.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan government published the so-called “White Paper on the Great Interoceanic Canal” last week, amidst uncertainty for the future of this project, whose progress is being kept secret, without Chinese businessman Wang Jing, the concession holder, showing his face for over a year.
Read MoreBoth the President of Nicaragua and the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (MARENA) have maintained silence regarding Presidential Decree 15–2017 that eliminates the requirements for environmental impact studies prior to the execution of projects involving the natural resources.
Read MoreDressed in red, smiling and to a chorus of Tino Lopez Guerra’s “Nicaragua Mia.” Norma Helena Gadea made her reappearance onstage, after a month in an intensive care unit. She was accompanied by Carlos and Enrique Mejia Godoy, Carlos Emilio “Bean” Guillen, Katia Cardenal, Juan Solorzano and Luis Pastor.
Read MoreBianca Jagger attributes Comandante Ortega’s insistence on the disastrous project of an inter-oceanic canal to a “delusion of grandeur” on the part of “a person who wants to remain in power for life.” This delusion won’t allow him to think logically.
Read MoreVirginia Paguaga’s mission is to knock down the barriers that have been imposed between different art forms. Her project “Videopoetica” seeks to experiment with images and words. It involved a group of female poets, photographers and filmmakers so that they could create an audiovisual anthology, and reinterpret texts written by Central American women.
Read MoreMarch #91 for the repeal of Law 840 – the canal law – eventually began at 1:30 pm, some three and a half hours late. Hundreds of rural residents from the different communities around Nueva Guinea, El Tule, Rio San Juan and Waspan in the North Caribbean Autonomous Region, came together to participate.
Read MoreThe Broad Front for Democracy (FAD) issues its second evaluation of the electoral process. With the 2017 municipal elections just
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