MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Nicaragua on Friday expelled two human rights activists allegedly without justification as they tried to enter the country, according to the human rights organizations involved, which demanded an explanation.
The strongest explosion occurred Sunday night, when the 1,061-meter high volcano in the western province of León expelled gas, ashes and incandescent rocks which fell on dried vegetation, causing fires which alarmed nearby communities.
With the new border facility, the Costa Rican government expects about 40 percent of the traffic that currently flows through Peñas Blancas to shift over the next 10 years to Las Tablillas, which is located 120 kilometers closer to the Caribbean coast.
The agreement, which was signed in 2012 by the governments of Nicaragua and Russia, would allow Moscow to set up land stations in the country for its satellites known as Glonas.
The health ministry has isolated the U.S. embassy staffer at his home, set up a security corridor around it and ordered a medical team to visit him twice a day. The man does not show symptoms of the disease and the measures are strictly preventive, Nicaraguan authorities said.
SAN JUAN DEL SUR, Nicaragua – It was quite easy to spot the rebbetzin, or the rabbi’s wife, within my first few minutes of a hot February afternoon in the Nicaraguan beach town of San Juan del Sur. Looking as if she belonged more in Brooklyn, with her modest, long dress and pushing a baby in a carriage, she bought a fruit juice in a definitively New York-accented Spanish.
Costa Rica Foreign Affairs Minister Manuel González said the work to block the canal prevented major environmental damage that would have been virtually impossible to repair.
The oldest European-founded city in the Americas is just over the border with Nicaragua. This city of around 100,000 is the epicenter for our northern neighbor's tourism industry, and with good reason.
