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- DJ Nicaragua Apr 2007-08 Coffee Exports Up 43% To 174,647 Bags
- -- style='font-size:11px;'>DOW JONES NEWSWIRES Nicaraguan coffee exports in April, the seventh month of the new 2007-08 crop cycle, were up 43% to 174,647 (60-kilogram) bags, the official Nicaraguan Export Center, Cetrex, said Friday. This compares to
- FAO Gives Near us$100 Million to Nicaragua
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will give Nicaragua near $100 million dollars to start the harvest season and help achieve food safety. Armando Cerrato, associate representative of FAO, said the aid will go to small rice and corn
- FAO Gives Near $100 M to Nicaragua
Managua, May 14 (Prensa Latina) The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will give Nicaragua near $100 million dollars to start the harvest season and help achieve food safety. Armando Cerrato, associate representative of FAO, said the aid will go
- Rising Fuel Costs Provoke Transportation Strike in Nicaragua
Within minutes of rescuing us from the blazing sun of downtown, Jose Briceo Perez, a driver in a Nicaraguan taxi cooperative in the capital of Managua, made it clear that he was less than content with current government policies concerning fuel prices.
- Nicaraguan transit strike spawns food shortages
MANAGUA -- Last month, all anyone could talk about in the marketplace was the rising cost of food. Now that a violent transportation strike has paralyzed the country for two weeks and prevented deliveries from getting to market, the conversation has
- LatAm leaders reject Bolivia bid
Leaders from four Latin American countries have rejected a controversial autonomy bid by a region of Bolivia. The leaders of Bolivia, Venezuela, Nicaragua and the Cuban vice-president denounced the move as an illegal attempt to destabilise the country.
- US citizens in Nicaragua warned in transit strike
MANAGUA, Nicaragua The U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua is warning U.S. citizens to beware of highway robbers and take precautions during a national transportation workers strike. It said in a statement Tuesday that two groups of U.S. citizens were robbed over
- In Nicaragua, US Embassy warns of robberies, strike barricades
(AP) - The U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua is warning U.S. citizens to beware of highway robbers and take precautions during a national transportation workers strike. It said in a statement Tuesday that two groups of U.S. citizens were robbed over the past two
- Striking transport workers clash with police in Nicaragua
MANAGUA, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Nicaraguan transport workers clashed with riot police Tuesday in Las Maderas town, 45 km east of the capital Managua, as the national transport strike entered its ninth day. Police retaliated with tear gas bombs and rubber
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Settled as a colony of Spain in the 1520s, Nicaragua gained its independence in 1821. Violent opposition to governmental manipulation and corruption spread to all classes by 1978 and resulted in a short-lived civil war that brought the Marxist Sandinista guerrillas to power in 1979. Nicaraguan aid to leftist rebels in El Salvador caused the US to sponsor anti-Sandinista contra guerrillas through much of the 1980s. Free elections in 1990, 1996, and again in 2001 saw the Sandinistas defeated. The country has slowly rebuilt its economy during the 1990s, but was hard hit by Hurricane Mitch in 1998.
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