US Delays $64 Million in Aid to Nicaragua
Due to concerns over the fairness of Nicaragua’s elections, the US has just announced that it will keep on delaying the promised development aid of $64 million. The US Ambassador to Nicaragua, Robert Callahan, has even said that this aid could be canceled if the situation is not [...]

The historic and cultural city of Granada in Nicaragua has just been the setting of the Fifth International Poetry Festival, entitled “Poetry is the Consciousness of the Earth”.
This cultural festival was a meeting of over 130 poets from 54 different countries around the world, including Iraq and Uganda, and was a celebration of the spoken [...]

Ortega’s Anti-Crisis Plan
Nicaragua certainly is not immune from the global economic crisis and President Daniel Ortega has announced economic measures to prevent Nicaragua from plunging into economic crisis and hardship. He has unveiled economic measures for the country as a whole and “belt tightening” measures for government members.

The Government Tightens Its Belt
Government measures, affecting state [...]

With all the TV and press coverage of the race for president over the past few months, I feel as if I know everything there is to know about Barack Obama! Obama’s journey to the White House has been an exciting one and it reaches its climax today as Obama is sworn in as the [...]

Nicaragua’s Municipal Elections
The US is not the only country to have been holding elections and considering its leaders carefully. Yesterday, saw Nicas voting in municipal elections, which will test the popularity of President Daniel Ortgega and his Sandinista party who took control of Nicaragua in 2006. While they are only municipal elections, the elections are [...]

Last week, I blogged about how the global economic crisis may affect Central American countries, like Nicaragua, and what these countries were doing to protect themselves.
Figures from the Nicaraguan Central Bank show that Nicaraguans living abroad send somewhere between $800 million and $1 billion home to their families in Nicaragua, every year.  This figure is [...]

With the Credit Crunch in the US and the UK, and the “Crisis” in Europe, you may have been wondering if this economic downturn is going to affect Central American countries, like Nicaragua. Well, the latest news from Reuters is that Central American countries are preparing themselves for the worst and looking to protect themselves [...]