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Supreme Court to Consider Opening Case against Tsokos! [9/21/05]
By Katherine Hoyt
On May 26th, 2005, Nicaragua's Supreme Court agreed to consider the request by indigenous rights lawyer Maria Luisa Acosta that a criminal case be opened against land grabber Peter Tsokos and his lawyer Peter Martinez. Acosta believes the two men were the intellectual authors of the murder of her husband, Francisco Garcia, Bluefields businessman and science professor. Two men, Ivan Argüello and Wilberto Ochoa, have already been convicted in a Bluefields court of murder for hire. Read more
Victory at Nicotex!
Five fired union leaders from the Nicotex factory in Sébaco, Nicaragua, which supplies Gildan Activewear, were reinstated at the factory, starting February 14. [Read more: Victory at Nicotex!]
World-wide Coffee Crisis Impacts Nicaragua! - Nicanet Helps Unemployed Coffee Workers Plant Corn and Beans!
What on earth could we do to help? The price of coffee had dropped to the point where it was not worthwhile to pick it! From US$120 for 100 pounds to US$40! Several years ago, the IMF and World Bank encouraged Vietnam to plant coffee. This production, when combined with Brazil’s coffee bushes producing again after the 1994 freeze resulted in an enormous surplus of coffee on the world market in 2001. Read More
Pipeline Threatens Nicaraguan Indigenous Community!
A Florida-based company, the Phenix Group, is planning a 470 kilometer long pipeline to carry foreign oil across Nicaragua, beginning at the indigenous community of Monkey Point on the Caribbean Coast. Phenix CEO Rick Wojcik falsely claims to have a letter from the Monkey Point community signed by local nurse Pearl Watson, who says she has not seen or signed such letter. The pipeline greatly threatens the indigenous community living on this land. Read more and take action!
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