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US holds back aid to Nicaragua for 3 more months

Auxiliadora Martinez, a Nicaraguan political refugee,

has been granted asylum in the United Statet. Martinez, 23,

was beaten with sticks, shot at, nearly raped and almost

murdered – all because she fought for free elections.

Mosquito Coast Bites Nicaragua's Ortega

Dole Wins Dismissal of Nicaraguan Banana Workers’ Lawsuits

Indigenous separatists take YATAMA party headquarters in Nicaragua

Nicaraguan government remains quiet about Thaksin special citizenship

Ortega meets with Fidel Castro

Nicaragua´s Daniel Ortega seeking constitutional changes

Obama Endures Ortega Diatribe

"To move forward, we cannot let ourselves be prisoners of past disagreements.  I did not come here to debate the past, I came here to deal with the future."  Barack Obama at Summit of Americas

´Tortured beauty' given U.S. asylum

Ex-Thai PM Thaksin holds Nicaraguan passport-gov't

Judge manipulates statements by Father Lombardi to push for abortion in Nicaragua

Nicaraguan Opposition and the Church refused re-election of Ortega

Nicaragua May Use Foreign Reserves to Plug Budget Gap

The Nicaragua media links the favorable ruling for Aleman to the pact the then-president sealed in 1999 with Ortega, under which the Liberals and Sandinistas agreed to share the spoils of power in the form of government posts and judgeships.

 

 

Nicaragua´s Ortega moves

closer to Cold War allies

 

 

Nicaragua turns to wind power, builds 19 windmills

 

 

 

Netherlands cuts aid to Nicaragua over "Sabotaged" elections

Development minister Bert Koenders has suspended budget support to Nicaragua in response to controversy over the country's local elections.

`I think it would be irresponsible to give direct aid to the Sandinista government, which has interfered in every possible way with the holding of free and fair elections,' Mr Koenders said. `That would send the wrong message. Good governance is a central precondition for this form of aid, and I have to be consistent in applying this criterion.'    Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs

 

 

Moammar Gadhafi and Daniel Ortega met in Libya on Sunday.  They addressed several international issues of common concern.

 

 

MANAGUA (AFP) — Nicaragua has 90 days to clear up concerns over its November 9 local elections, or it will lose US-run Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) aid, and possibly face other sanctions, the US ambassador said Tuesday.

MCC chief John Danilovich on November 25 suspended the 175-million-dollar aid program launched in Nicaragua in 2005, after the ruling Sandinista party of President Daniel Ortega won most of the mayoral elections, amid allegations of widespread fraud.

The United States cannot continue its aid program until the election issue is resolved, US Ambassador to Nicaragua Robert Callahan told a press conference.

 

 

 

Russia hosts Nicaragua´s Ortega, Rekindles Soviet-era Alliance

 

 

 

 

Russia warships dock in Nicaragua

 

 

" Nicaraguan blocks ex-vice president Sergio Ramírez from writing prologue to poetry book...


Former Sandanista leader now at odds with President Daniel Ortega.

MANAGUA -- The state-run Nicaraguan Institute of Culture, or INC, barred novelist and former Vice President Sergio Ramirez from writing the prologue to an anthology of poetry due to be published next spring.

Managua newspapers cited Sunday a statement by Ramirez, who served as vice president in the 1979-1990 Sandinista government, in which he denounces the INC decision as "an official act of censorship by the Nicaraguan government...."  Latin American Herald Tribune

 

 

"La Purisima festival causes Nicaraguans much joy

La Purisima is a uniquely Nicaraguan festival held on Dec. 7, celebrating the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. The holiday -- Nicaragua's biggest of the year -- is a mixture of Halloween, Christmas and even a little bit of the Fourth of July. It's a time when it's great to give and it's great to receive.

Similar to trick-or-treating in the United States, children go from house to house, asking, "What is the cause of so much joy?" The homeowner says, "The conception of Mary," and gives out presents or sweets. "Hooray for the Virgin," is the delighted response from the kids."    By R

 

 

"Ambassador John Danilovich, CEO of the government aid organization, has expressed his “deep concern and disappointment” over the Nov. 9 municipal elections in Nicaragua and has ordered the MCC to re-evaluate its $175 million aid package, according to a press release."  Nica Times

 

 

Managua, Nov 21, 2008 / 09:12 pm (CNA).- At the conclusion of their Plenary Assembly, the bishops of Nicaragua issued a statement reiterating their concern and sorrow as pastors “over the violence in different parts of the country, which is reopening deep wounds that our people had overcome with much effort and good will.”

 

 

 

Former US president Jimmy Carter (R) shakes hands with Eduardo Montealegre, presidential candidate for the Nicaraguan Liberals, 05 November 2006,

 

 

 

Nicaragua opposition vows to defy election decree... (AP)

 

 

Roberto Rivas, the electoral council president, announced Thursday that the ruling Sandinista party won the large majority of municipal race, including Managua.  Both the U.S. State Department and OAS Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza have expressed concern over opposition allegations of fraud in the voting.

 

"With just a week until voting gets under way, the government has yet to accredit credible domestic and international observers who, as in past elections, work to ensure that the process is free and fair.

Along with political rights, Nicaragua's constitution guarantees freedom of speech, peaceful assembly, and association. Are these at risk now too?

The United States calls on the Government of Nicaragua to ensure that the campaign and the election will be free of intimidation, violence and harassment of all citizens wishing to exercise their right to vote." VOA

 

 

"Managua, Nicaragua, Thirty years after legendary Nicaraguan newspaper publisher Pedro Joaquín Chamorro was gunned down in the streets of Managua, he's seen as a martyr for his relentless criticism of the ruling right-wing regime.

Today his son, Carlos Fernando Chamorro, lives under the new leftist regime that his father helped bring into power. Like his father, he's also become an investigative journalist who keeps a close eye on the government. Now Carlos says he's become the target of a similarly repressive regime."
 

 

 
 

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