Camilo Barcenas was so clumsy in his school art classes that it could well be said he had two left hands. His two limbs were so imprecise and uncoordinated that if asked to draw a cone, he would end up with a cube; if they asked for a cube, he’d get a trapezoid.
Read MoreRepresentatives of rural communities and environmentalists in Nicaragua today urged the judiciary to intervene in support of the repeal of a controversial law authorizing the building of an interoceanic a canal in the south of the country.
Read MoreThe Sandinista Party Assembly announced on Friday that the Party will hold a Congress on June 4th. On that day the candidacy of Commander Daniel Ortega for a third consecutive term will be formalized, although his selection of a running mate remains unknown.
Read MoreThe communities located in the Rama-Kriol territory in southeastern Nicaragua assure that they weren’t consulted regarding the interoceanic canal project, and don’t approve the position of their communal government’s president to lease out their lands.
Read MoreAmong the offshore companies associated with Nicaragua and registered with Mossack Fonseca at the beginning and the end of the nineties, there are at least two that aren’t related to known business people or groups, but to people who figured in political affairs alongside comandante Ortega, during the years he was an opposition leader. Today, both men are presidential advisors.
Read MoreFour Nicaraguan and one Costa Rican businessman, all of them linked with large regional economic groups, justified their ties with the Mossack Fonseca law firm and the creation of offshore enterprises in Panama, the Virgin Islands and other fiscal paradises.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreFollowing 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.
Read MoreThe following is a poem from Nicaraguan poet and novelist Gioconda Belli on the different trees of Managua, some live, some metallic.
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