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Monthly Archives: January, 2008

Small Businesses Say Reforms Urgent

The Nicaraguan Council of Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (CONIMIPYME) is calling on the National Assembly to expedite a package of proposals that would...

Vestiges of Ancient Indigenous Language Still Found Today in Matagalpa’s Northern Highlands

In the late 1800s, U.S. ethnologist Daniel Garrison Brinton concluded that he had discovered a new indigenous language originating from northern Nicaragua, which he...

‘08 Economic Prospects Hinge on Venezuela

MANAGUA – President Daniel Ortega this year faces the daunting task of delivering on his promises to strengthen the national economy and help the...

National Assembly to Use Ortega’s Reforms against Him

Like a ghost from the past, a constitutional reform measure that Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega promoted in 2005 to transfer greater government powers to...

Police Make Record Drug Busts in 2007

MANAGUA – National Police last year seized 20 tons of cocaine, twice the amount seized the previous year. “We haven’t seized a quantity like this...

Police Probe Sandinista Lawmaker for New Year’s Shooting

MANAGUA – Police are investigating a Sandinista legislator for a bizarre New Year’s Eve shooting in which the politician raised a racket outside of...

Volz Judge Fears for His Family’s Safety

MANAGUA – One year ago, appeals court magistrate Roberto Rodríguez, 61, was contemplating retirement to spend more time with his wife and family, and...

Founder, Publisher of El Nuevo Diario Dies at 75

MANAGUA – The founder-publisher of the daily El Nuevo Diario, Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, died Jan. 4 after a long cardiac illness, family sources announced....

Tourism Hopes for Recovery Year in ‘08

MANAGUA – After a year of stagnant growth for Nicaragua’s tourism sector, business leaders are urging the government to invest more in the industry...

Sport Kicks Up a Fuss

In his second-story office at his gym in the eastern San José suburb of San Pedro, Milton Marín sits back in his desk chair...

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