Members of the National Police, the Justice Ministry and an anti-violence group are organizing toy gun exchanges ahead of the holidays to help fight violence in at-risk communities.
U.S. congressman Leo Ryan, a defector named Patricia Parks, and three journalists – NBC reporter Don Harris, NBC photographer Bob Brown, and San Francisco Examiner photographer Greg Robinson – were killed. This happened around 5:20 p.m. Twenty minutes earlier, the settlers had begun taking poison back in Jonestown.
The heist is known in criminal circles as an "unlimited operation." Two were allegedly carried out: first on Dec. 22 last year and again on Feb. 19 and 20 this year.
Nicas working abroad sent home a total of $1 billion in 2012, and 43 percent of it came from Costa Rica, according to the World Bank. The Nicaraguan Central Bank begs to differ.
