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16 hrs ago | BuzzFlash.org

America's Diplomatic War Against a Nicaraguan-Venezuelan Alliance

As the Venezuelan presidential election approaches in October, Washington is undoubtedly hoping that Hugo Chavez will go down to stinging electoral defeat and that the populist leader's geopolitical alliance will crumble and come to an ignominious end.

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Related Topix: Nicaragua, World News, Central America, Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, US News, Liberal Political News

Thu Feb 09, 2012

Examiner.com

Public Works Professionals: Profiles that edify: Fulvio Cajina

Labor standards enforcement professionals are of a not-well-known discipline in the fields of litigation support and contract compliance.T his is to introduce to you Fulvio Cajina, labor compliance specialist with the San Mateo County Transit District, in San Carlos, CA .

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Related Topix: San Mateo County, CA, San Carlos, CA, Nicaragua, World News, American University

Sun Feb 05, 2012

Stock Market Review

Calibre Continues to Expand Gold-Silver Mineralized Zone at 100%...

Douglas Forster, Chairman of Calibre Mining Corp. is pleased to announce additional results from the Phase II delineation drilling program on the Company's 100%-owned Riscos de Oro epithermal gold-silver project in the Borosi Concession of Northeast Nicaragua.

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Related Topix: Nicaragua, World News

Wed Feb 01, 2012

Nicaragua Living

Education in Nicaragua

Or the Lack of it: This article: http://www.laprensa.com.ni/2012/02/01/portada/89185 discusses the sad sate of affairs for primary education in Nicaragua - Qualified as one the the WORST int he world.

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Related Topix: Nicaragua, Central America, World News

Tue Jan 31, 2012

Market Wire

Alder Closes Private Placement Financing

Alder Resources Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has completed its previously-announced non-brokered private placement financing by issuing 30,000,000 units at a price of $0.10 per Unit and 1,904,038 Units at a price of $0.1313 per Unit, for aggregate gross proceeds of $3,250,000. Each Unit consists of one common share of the Company and ... (more)

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Related Topix: Nicaragua, Central America, World News

The Miami Herald

30 years after: former Contra fighters share memories

It was at the end of January 1982 that the Contras, with help from the CIA, approved a plan to take the war against the Sandinistas beyond the Honduran border to Nicaraguan territory.

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Related Topix: Nicaragua, World News, Central America, Prison

Mon Jan 30, 2012

CSRwire.com

World Soy Foundation and Cargill to Host Corporate Social...

The World Soy Foundation and Cargill announce plans for Nicaragua's first corporate responsibility conference focused on childhood nutrition.

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Related Topix: Nicaragua, World News, Central America, Medicine, Nutrition, Life, Food, Agriculture, Science, Family, Kids

State Department

Nicaragua Country Specific Information

COUNTRY DESCRIPTION: The second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, Nicaragua is a developing nation with an increasingly authoritarian government.

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Related Topix: Nicaragua, World News, Central America, Travel, Nicaragua Travel, Daniel Ortega

Fri Jan 27, 2012

WFMY 2 Greensboro

Endangered Puma Cubs Rescued

Managua, Nicaragua -- At an animal shelter in Nicaragua's capital of Managua, veterinarians are nursing months-old puma cubs back to health after they were rescued from traps set by farmers.

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Related Topix: Nicaragua, World News, Central America

Wed Jan 25, 2012

Marine News

This Day in Naval History - January 25th

From the Navy News Service: 1922 - Cruiser USS Galveston lands her Marine Corps detachment at Corinto, Nicaragua, to reinforce the Managua legation Comark Announces MDU42 Large Screen Marine Display Passes Military Testing.

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Related Topix: Nicaragua, World News, Central America, Prison, US Military, US Navy

Mon Jan 23, 2012

Reuters

Courage on the Island of Widows

We got up before dawn to travel to the Island of Guanacastal, a community 130 km north of Managua, Nicaragua.

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Related Topix: Nicaragua, World News, Central America,

Sat Jan 21, 2012

Post-gazette.com

Fair Trade USA: From coffee farmers' advocate to market force

After years of living in the mountains of northern Nicaragua as an agricultural aid worker trying to make life better for the country's poor farmers, Paul Rice woke up and smelled the coffee -- specifically, fair-trade coffee.

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Related Topix: Nicaragua, World News, Central America, Agriculture, Science, Austin, TX

All About Jazz

The Latin Jazz Stylings of Irving Fields

When I play, I like the top of the piano to sound like flutes or clarinets and the bottom part like a trombone... To completely capture the career of pianist, composer, and arranger Irving Fields is a difficult task.

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Related Topix: Nicaragua, World News

Buenos Aires Herald

Timerman praises US stance on Malvinas

Foreign Minister Hctor Timerman praised the US stance on the conflict between Argentina and UK over the Malvinas islands sovereignty, after it called for both countries to solve the dispute via bilateral dialogue.

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Tue Jan 17, 2012

Pretoria News

Concern over Ortega's foreign friends

Nicaragua's left-wing President Daniel Ortega has won over many critics at home with a successful drive to cut poverty and spur business-friendly policies in Central America's poorest country.

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Related Topix: Nicaragua, World News, Central America, Daniel Ortega, Hugo Chavez

Mon Jan 16, 2012

USGS M5+ Earthquakes

M 4.7, near the coast of Nicaragua

You can also view a map displaying accumulated data from your report and others.

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Sat Jan 14, 2012

Inside Costa Rica

Ahmadinejad in Managua: WikiLeaks Reveals U.S. Fears of Nicaraguan-Iranian Rapprochement

Ahmadinejad in Managua: WikiLeaks Reveals U.S. Fears of Nicaraguan-Iranian Rapprochement As the west tightens sanctions and ratchets up pressure on Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has struck back at the United States in an unusual manner by touring through Latin America.

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Related Topix: Nicaragua, World News, Central America, Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, US Politics, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives

 

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