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Monthly Archives: November, 2007

U.S. Citizens Urged to Register for Absentee Vote

While those who have been watching U.S. cable TV news here might already have been lulled into a stupor by the seemingly endless presidential...

Storm Claims 21 Lives In Dominican Republic

SANTO DOMINGO – Dominican authorities said Oct. 29 that 21 people are dead and 33 others missing as a result of flooding and mudslides...

Technical Training Starts For Future Refinery Workers

MANAGUA – A group of 40 youths this week started a training course to learn how to construct and run the oil refinery that...

National Police Tops In Female Participation

MANAGUA – Nicaragua, of all the countries in the Western Hemisphere, has the highest percentage of female police officers, 27%, with plans to bring...

Life Remains a Struggle for Coffee Pickers

MATAGALPA – To be a coffee picker in these northern highlands means to wander from hacienda to hacienda, looking for work that rarely pays...

Pro Baseball League Gaining Ground

MANAGUA – The grass has been cut and the foul lines chalked. The lineups have been penciled in and the beer and quesillo vendors...

Food Prices Rattle Economy

Wearing their aprons and starched white caps, some 100 bakers left their ovens and marched through downtown Granada Oct. 25 to protest the latest...

Bacterial Outbreak Infects 1,600, Kills 9

President Daniel Ortega on Monday traveled to the northwestern department of Chinandega with a team of Cuban disease experts and government health officials to...

Getting a Fish’s-Eye View of the Panama Canal

The first foghorn we heard drowned out the sound of the howler monkeys that roared from the jungle around us. The second one scared...

Debt for Nature Swap To Aid Wildlands

Costa Rica s most critical wildlands will enjoy a $26 million boost over the next 16 years, ensuring the protection and preservation of tropical...

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