Stories about Nicaragua from July, 2005
Latin America Responds to TeleSur's Launch
This past Sunday a small group of 25 journalists in Caracas, Venezuela began pilot-broadcasting a new Pan-American satellite news network called TeleSur which, by September, hopes to be reaching audiences...
Latin America: Inter-American Development Bank Elections
Juanson World has an excellent rundown of the candidates to join the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Development. His post was then updated at 1 p.m. to note that...
Central America: CAFTA
Boz ponders CAFTA and free trade in general as the agreement enters a House vote this week.
Nicaragua: Coffee and Contras
Boli-Nica has two posts on a recent Miami Herald article about the nexus of organic coffee and politics in Nicaragua. His posts are full of links to other bloggers discussing...
Nicaragua: Voting Machines and ATM's
Picasso Dreams reports that the same company that makes ATM's in Nicaragua made the electronic voting machines in the last US presidential election. Jokingly she writes, “I found it ironic...
Nicaragua: Virgins, Bulls, and Small Town Living
Picasso Dreams keeps the prolific reflections coming after recently moving to a small town in Nicarugua.
Nicaragua: Exotic Living in the Tropics
Picasso Dreams writes of doing laundry, finding internet, reality television, cheap eats, and generally settling in to Nicaraguan life.
