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TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2004

Nicaragua’s “Dry Canal” - A Vital Focus of Resistance to Neoliberalism and for Building the “Globalization-for-People” Movement

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MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 2004

Nicaragua: Land Of Coffee and Famine

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2004

HIPC: Not As Good As It Looks!

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2003

Stop Illegal Privatization of Water Service in Nicaragua!

SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2003

Oil 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.
• The Phenix Group hopes to get World Bank funding for their project that would cut a swath through the World Bank sponsored Meso-American Biological Corridor.
• 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 any such letter.
• Watson predicts oil spills, destruction of fisheries and says, “People [in Monkey Point] live on the fishing and producing of the land. What benefit will we get from losing our sea goods, losing our wildlife?”
• The recently passed indigenous lands demarcation law obliges Phenix to fully inform and consult with indigenous peoples with traditional rights to the land in the path of the pipeline.