Nicaragua Network

1. Rainy season begins in Nicaragua
2. Costa Rica and Nicaragua finish arguments before World Court
3. Russia and US in cooperation with Nicaragua
4. Freedom House report hard on Latin America
5. Nicaraguan workers celebrate May Day
6. Violence affects Nicaraguan women
7. Economic briefs: farmers in South Caribbean, new FTZ jobs, Social Security growth
8. Nicaragua expresses solidarity with Nepal; reinforces preparedness for quakes

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1. Canal briefs: Oquist, Talavera, the New York Times and PBS Newshour
2. World Earth Day noted in Nicaragua
3. Compensation of landowners affected by Tumarin almost completed
4. Ortega meets with high level Army officers; talks about Summit
5. Family Code supported and explained
6. Economic briefs: farm lending, housing rebound, home ownership, internet to RAAN
7. Nicaragua most improved in “happiness”
8. M&R: People speak freely to pollsters

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1. World Court hears arguments from Costa Rica and Nicaragua
2. New M&R poll released
3. Nicaragua must adapt to higher temperatures
4. Education briefs
5. Fishing production increases; government organizes cooperatives
6. Nicaragua takes out disaster insurance

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1. Central American presidents meet with Obama at Summit of the Americas
2. Wildfire on Mombacho volcano under control
3. Canal briefs: Forum in Panama and visit of German investors
4. Dangerous deep water free diving for lobsters has declined
5. Case of demolished hotel roils media 

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1. Drownings up as more Nicaraguans visit beaches this Holy Week
2. New Family Code goes into effect
3. Relations with Costa Rica continue tense with World Court final hearing approaching
4. Nicaragua grows while hemispheric economic growth falters
5. Central Bank reports: Social Security and foreign debt
6. April is vaccination month; 1.7 million children to be vaccinated
7. Forest Institute announces deadline for tree farm and nursery funding proposals

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1. Law to lower electricity rates passed
2. Russian Foreign Minister visits Latin America including Nicaragua
3. US: “Very few property claims left”
4. Nicaraguans celebrate Palm Sunday and begin Holy Week
5. US Latin America budget increases 34.7% including “democracy promotion”
6. South Korea develops highway master plan for Nicaragua

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1. ALBA summit makes plans for April meeting in Panama
2. Two international gatherings discuss canal
3. Canal briefs: Wang Jing, Telemaco Talavera, opinion poll, and Montiel sentenced
4. Nicaraguan NGOs meet with right-wing US congresswoman
5. Marches held on both sides of abortion question
6. Tourists seek out Nicaragua’s volcanoes
7. Ecuador looks to Nicaragua for policing model

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1. IMF mission recommends improving productivity and investing in education
2. Maduro makes lightening visit to Managua
3. Massive planting of windbreakers announced
4. Citizens participate in earthquake-tsunami drill
5. Over 2,000 jobs lost with expiration of TPL
6. Social briefs: water and sewers, primary school computers
7. ALBA treaty on medicines forwarded to National Assembly for approval
8. Copies of Zapatera sculptures will be placed at sites of originals

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1. International Women’s Day celebrated
2. Government publishes compilation of achievements benefitting women and families
3. Petrocaribe summit meets in Caracas
4. Bishops release Lenten message
5. Industrial farming methods spell damaging dust storms for Leon and Chinandega
6. Photovoltaics lighting up the night in rural Nicaragua
7. Ortega dedicates new stadium to Chavez

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1. Citizen security assemblies held around the country
2. Government decrees minimum wage increases
3. Opposition and Sandinistas commemorate anniversaries
4. Water supply threatened by deforestation
5. Economic briefs: Coffee, tourism, Social Security
6. Cuban trade delegation identifies 50 areas of interchange within ALBA
7. Fluoride treatments lead off National Day of Oral Health

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