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Monthly Archives: October, 2009

Central Pacific Hotel Aims To Be Green

One of the advantages of staying at the Hotel Green is that your eyes don’t sting when you get out of the swimming pool....

Separatists Retreat, Regroup After Week of Tensions

The northern Caribbean port town of Bilwi returned to relative calm last weekend, following several days of a tense standoff between Miskito separatists, riot...

Amayo Wind Farm Approved for Phase II

After more than a month of holdup by the government, the Amayo wind-farm project in Rivas this week was approved to move forward on...

U.S. Rejects Sandinista Judges’ Reelection Ruling

MANAGUA – In a move the opposition is calling the first step in a unified resistance to President Daniel Ortega’s ambitions to perpetuate himself...

Citizen Insecurity Growing Across Region

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...

Bridge Collapse Creates Storm

As the dust begins to settle on a bridge collapse last Thursday in Costa Rica's central Pacific region, the only thing still standing seems...

Security officials freeze new gun permits for foreigners after cop killing

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...

Lack of bridge info forces experts to ‘Google it’

Engineers tasked with identifying dangerous bridges in order to prevent another fatal collapse are resorting to Internet images uploaded by tourists. Such is the...

National Museum opens 19th century homes

Never before open to the public, two homes that hug the northeast corner of Costa Rica´s Bellavista Fortress – now the National Museum –...

Nicaragua’s opposition moves to annul ’08 municipal elections

Almost a year after the allegedly fraudulent Nov. 9, 2008 municipal elections redefined Nicaraguan democracy, the opposition majority in the legislature pushed forth an...

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