MANAGUA – Nicaraguan president, Daniel Ortega, is to present a Citizen Action Plan that includes projects for next year, announced Rosario Murillo, Coordinator of the Council of Communication and Citizens of the government.
Government initiatives in economic, social, health, education, housing spheres among others are the result of careful planning, Murillo indicated.
He also explained issues [...]

After reporters corrected Nicaragua’s deputy foreign minister Manuel Coronel Kautz for calling Dutch Member of European Parlaiment Hans vanBaalen a German, Kautz proceeded to publicly dismiss Holland as a “crappy little country.” Now that’s what I call diplomacy.
The foreign ministry later apologized, but maintained its accusation that van Baalen was a meddler for holding a [...]

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega says Dutch MEP Hans van Baalen was in Nicaragua to see how the army felt about attempting a coup d’état, but found no officers willing to go along with the idea.
This is the Nicaraguan President’s explanation for the diplomatic row which has arisen since a visit by the MEP.
The European Union [...]

GUATEMALA CITY – Brazilian corruption busters, a “comfort-food” startup by California-based Mexicans and a Costa Rican doctor who treats Panamanian indigenous people won the top three awards Friday at the Fifth Social Innovation Fair at this Central American capital’s San Carlos University.
The winners – earning $30,000, $20,000 and $15,000 respectively from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation [...]

MANAGUA — Nicaraguan police have seized a large cache of weapons and explosives from suspected members of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel after a police car chase outside Managua, a spokeswoman said.
The weapons included 61 automatic rifles, mostly AK-47’s and four M-16s, two grenade launchers, 10 hand grenades, 20 sticks of dynamite and more than 19,000 [...]

Foreigners looking to gain residency through a falsified marriage could face up to six years in prison under a new law signed by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias on Wednesday.
The law looks to put an end to a practice by which foreigners pay a Costa Rican to act as a spouse in order to gain [...]

Nicaragua (MNN) ― A week ago, Category-1 Hurricane Ida struck Nicaragua around sunrise, affecting communities along the Atlantic and Caribbean coasts. Thousands were displaced by flash floods and mudslides triggered by Ida, but no casualties were reported. Speaking to us from Nicaragua, Kim Brown with Food for the Hungry said the storm hit without warning.
“It [...]

GUATEMALA, November 11 (Itar-Tass) – Russian Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu and Commander in Chief of the Nicaraguan Armed Forces Omar Halleslevens have concluded an agreement on cooperation in the sphere of coping with the aftermath of natural calamities. The agreement that expires next year was concluded on Tuesday within the framework of the Russian [...]

Amnesty International today expressed concern that the Nicaraguan Supreme Court continues to delay its judgment on the legality of new criminal laws on abortion which entered into force in 2008.
The Court was due to issue a judgment in May 2009 on the constitutionality of a complete ban on abortion, even when the life of the [...]

MANAGUA, Nicaragua – The bread-and-circus spectacle that has partially masked President Daniel Ortega’s systematic and increasingly audacious power grab has been neatly summarized by the events of the past three weeks.
Observers who have paid attention to the tumultuous chain of events that started Oct. 19, when Sandinista magistrates sneakily scrapped a constitutional article that was [...]

Never before open to the public, two homes that hug the northeast corner of Costa Rica’s Bellavista Fortress – now the National Museum – were unveiled Monday as part of a permanent exhibit of the museum.
Constructed at the end of the 19th century, the houses were the residences of the first- and second-in-command of the [...]

Costa Rica’s Public Security Ministry suspended the issuance of new gun permits to foreigners Wednesday, according to national media reports.
The move came on the heels of a shootout Tuesday between Jamaican assailants and Costa Rican police in the western San José suburb of Escazú, in which 30-year-old Judicial Investigation Police officer Randall Mauricio López was [...]

Engineers tasked with identifying dangerous bridges in order to prevent another fatal collapse are resorting to Internet images uploaded by tourists. Such is the inadequacy of the government’s own infrastructure records, a University of Costa Rica (UCR) expert engineer has revealed.
According to engineer Guillermo Santana from the UCR’s National Laboratory of Materials and Structural Models [...]

MANAGUA – Nicaragua’s long-standing claim to being the safest country in Central America is losing its luster in a region that is now considered one of the most dangerous areas in the world, according to a new report on human development in Central America.
El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras – Central America’s “northern triangle” – have [...]

A small mountain community northwest of San José was identified as the cantonwith the highest quality of life by the University of Costa Rica (UCR) this week.
Valverde Vega, whose principal population center is the crafts mecca of Sarchí, sits on the western slope of the Poás Volcano and, according to the study, has the most [...]

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Selectmen voted Monday to endorse a committee to study the possibility of a “sister city” relationship between the town and Bluefields, Nicaragua.
Robert Peck, who came before the Selectmen at its Aug. 10 meeting, said if the town wanted to go forward with a “sister city” relationship, a committee would have to [...]

The Honourable Peter Kent, Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas), today issued the following statement regarding the October 19 ruling on presidential re election made by the Constitutional Chamber of Nicaragua’s Supreme Court:
“Canada’s engagement with the Americas focuses on the promotion of democratic governance, respect for human rights and the rule of law. Canada [...]

Costa Rican Social Security System (Caja) officials closed Ricardo Saprissa Stadium Wednesday, claiming the San José soccer team owes a ₡ 720 million (more than $1.2 million) debt, just hours before Saprissa was set to play neighboring rival Liga Deportiva Alajuelense.
The time of closure was not accidental. Manuel Ugarte, the Caja’s finance director, explained that [...]

TURRUBARES, Costa Rica – The collapse of a bridge last week that resulted in the death of five people could have been avoided had the government taken heed of an engineer’s report carried out in 2006, the report’s commissioner has claimed.
The report, complete with photographs, highlighted a series of structural problems and warned of a [...]

The figures by the Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones (TSE) reveals that more Nicaraguan men are more likely to marry Costa Rican women than Nicaraguan women to marry Costa Rican men when the arrive in Costa Rica, with a total of 12.515 Nicaraguan men marrying “ticas”, while only 934 Nicaraguan women married “ticos” between 1950 and [...]