Nicaraguan exports continued growing during the first half of April, confirming the forecast that they will exceed record figures achieved in 2010. Goods worth 793 million USD were sold until April 15, an increase of 39 percent against same period of 2010, according to the latest figures of the Center for Export Procedures (Cetrex). Read Article
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After more than an hour delay, Costa Rican and Nicaraguan officials finally sat across each other along the border that separates the two countries at Peñas Blancas on Tuesday, but the discussion proved fruitless, as distrust and chaos reigned. The meeting had been scheduled for 10am but didn’t get underway until past 11am, when both […]
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If you plan to go to Nicaragua by land, take into account the border at Peñas Blancas is closed this morning, as both Costa Rican and Nicaraguan authorities decided to close the border between the two countries as a security and safety measure for the bi-national meeting scheduled for this morning at 10am. The land […]
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On April 12, 1797 a group of black Caribs are transported by British forces from San Vicente to Punta Gorda on Roatan Island, where they are abandoned. In May of that year set out in the sea and grow to become one of the most important living cultures of Honduras. Read Article
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A group of 150 members of the Nicaraguan Sandinista Youth have begun since Friday a watch of the Isla Calero to, “take care of national sovereignty”, according to the official Nicaraguan portal 19 de Julio. This group took over from the 100 young people who on Monday stood in the conflict zone in an attempt […]
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A U.S. Marine Corps Forces, South security cooperation team and more than 25 servicemembers from the Ejercito de Nicaragua (National Army of Nicaragua) conducted a five-day multinational hand-to-hand combat skills exchange at the Corinto Naval Base, Nicaragua, March 24. Read Article
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Nicaragua To File Complaint Against Costa Rica Nicaragua says it intends to file a complaint against Costa Rica at the International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ) for violating its territorial integrity. The Ortega government said on Sunday that it would file the complaint today, Monday. Nicaraguan Army Chief Julio Cesar Aviles on Friday […]
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The Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry on Thursday sent a protest note to the Directorate General of Foreign Policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica for “violating airspace” of the disputed area. Action “disobeyed the order of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in its resolution of 8 March 2011.” Read Article
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With a total revenue forecast around $448 million for 2011, Nicaragua ranks last in Latin America. However, the country is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.8 percent over the next five years, ahead of the 4.9 percent average expected for Latin America, according to a new report from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com). Nicaragua: Growing […]
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Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin said Monday Colombia’s ties with Nicaragua are still difficult, and accused the Nicaraguan government of not showing interest in improving the bilateral situation. Read Article
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A look at the border disputes beginning in October 18 up until the International Court of Justice decision made Tuesday. .Oct. 18, 2010: Nicaragua begins dredging the border of the Río San Juan with the goal of facilitating better navigation on the river. Oct. 21: Costa Rica denounces that Nicaragua allegedly moved sediment from the […]
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On Wednesday the ministro de Seguridad, José María Tijerino, said that reports from intelligence sources indicates that the conflict area may have been mined by the Nicaraguan army. The minister explained that a group of experts will be entering the area – to the limits placed by the International Court of Justice in The Hague […]
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The Nicaraguan Association of Textile and Apparel Industry (ANITEC, for its acronym in Spanish) recently announced that during 2010 Nicaragua surpassed its annual projections of textile and apparel exports, exceeding the one billion dollar mark for the first time in history. Read Article
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Former Foreign Minister and Catholic priest, Father Miguel D’Escoto described the ICJ ruling as a triumph of justice that forces Costa Rica to give up its warmongering attitude and seek harmony with Nicaragua. “Costa Rica overreacts and tells lies to sow fear in its own people towards Nicaragua and go on with its military build-up,” […]
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The ruling Tuesday by the International Court of Justice in The Hague on the border conflict between Costa Rica and Nicaragua is allowing both sides to claim victory and helping to defuse – at least for the moment – a high-stakes showdown that many feared would end in violence. Read Article
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Costa Rican authorities fear that the court ruling due next Tuesday on the Isla Calero dispute, Nicaragua could close its borders to Costa Rica. The International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ) is due to render its decision on Costa Rica’s request for temporary measures stopping Nicaragua from continuing the dredging of the San […]
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The 4th Special Congress of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) proclaimed Daniel Ortega as its candidate for the Nicaraguan presidential elections in November. In the meeting held on Saturday, Ortega was nominated by acclaim by the 1,019 Sandinista delegates from all of the country’s 15 departments. Read Article
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Gord Wiles, Chery Wiles and Debbie Bachman had been helping out at an orphanage in Nicaragua when they decided to visit a volcano east of the capital Managua. Read Article
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A trade delegation from Panama will arrive in Nicaragua this coming Thursday, Feb, 24, to explore partnerships with farmers and exporters and provide momentum to the liberal free trade agreement signed two years ago, industry sources said. Read Article
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Cuba and Nicaragua have sprung to the defense of embattled Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, with Fidel Castro claiming Tuesday that Washington plans to order a NATO invasion of Libya to seize oil interests. Read Article
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The Managua-based daily El Nuevo Diario has been under pressure since the start of the year. One of its reporters, Luis Galeano, has received death threats over two sensational corruption stories he wrote for the newspaper, one in January and one in February. At the same time, its management accuses the authorities of obstructing importation […]
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450 Russian-made Lada cars were handed over to Nicaraguan taxi drivers in a ceremony that was held in the capital Managua and attended by President Daniel Ortega on Saturday. Read Article
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Border dispute with Nicaragua has Costa Rica rethinking its lack of army The International Court of Justice is expected to rule any day on a Costa Rica-Nicaragua border dispute. The case has caused the ‘Switzerland of Central America’ to reexamine its commitment to disarmament. Read Article
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Costa Rica’s Foreign Ministry protested to its Nicaraguan counterpart the “intentional alteration” mapping of Nicaragua, as published earlier this week by the Instituto Nicaragüense de Estudios Territoriales (INETER) that includes the Harbour Head or Isla Calero, the piece of land in dispute between the two countries, as part of its territory. Read Article
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The companies that run trips to Panama agreed to suspend travel to that country to protest immigration restrictions that implement the canal authorities since last week. Carriers made that decision after a meeting with officials of the Consular Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua, who attended in place of Foreign Minister Samuel […]
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Nicaragua has released a new map that includes as part of national territory in the Caribbean area of the Isla Calero or Harbour Head as it is known in Nicaragua, that Costa Rica considers its own the subject of a dispute between the two countries. Read Article
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Costa Rica calls Nicaragua’s apparent removal of its troops from the Isla Calero a “ploy” mean to “fool and confuse” the judges of the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The ministerio de Seguridad Pública announced Monday afternoon that no troops were seen in the disputed territory in four flyovers of the area between […]
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Nicaraguan police seized the alleged members of a gang of kidnappers of migrants transiting through the country and rescued four illegal aliens, three Somalis and one of Eritrea, an official source. The operation was carried out in the community of Nacascolo, San Juan del Sur, Rivas, on the border with Costa Rica, local media reported […]
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The national congress of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), scheduled for February 12, is expected to ratify Daniel Ortega as its presidential candidate for the November elections. That is the expectation prevailing among political observers in the capital, and may also be inferred from the text of the official congress call announced Monday by […]
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As mounting tensions continue to smolder on the Korean Peninsula, another border dispute has been heating up in Central America, pitting Nicaragua against Costa Rica. Though it lacks the geopolitical gravitas and explosive nature of the conflict between North and South Korea, the standoff over a small area along the San Juan River has been […]
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The value of Nicaragua’s coffee exports rose 50.3 percent in the first three months of the 2010-2011 harvest, compared to the same period last season, a government source said today. Coffee sales abroad from October to December 2010 totaled 43.9 million dollars, while from October to December 2009 were $ 29.2 million, detailed the Center […]
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The Canadian family of a British Columbia man is attempting to get him back from Mexico quickly after he was seriously injured by stray bullets Sunday. Penticton resident Mike Dilorenzo, 69, was walking by a shopping centre in Mazatlan at 1:30 p.m. when men opened fire with AK-47 automatic assault rifles. Another bystander was injured […]
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Less than 10 months to go before the general elections in November, political groups opposed to Nicaraguan Sandinista Liberation Front (FSLN) government continue to be divided, and their chances are increasingly slimmer. So far, all attempts have failed to attain the unity reached in the 1989 general elections. At that time, it allowed opposition forces […]
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On Thursday, Nicaragua after a brilliant proposal by its ambassador in The Hauge, Carlos Arguello, in the Isal Calero conflict, finally pulled out its secret weapon to refute Costa Rica’s claims of an invasion: a 1971 map The map is being questioned by Costa Rica. The hearings ended on Thursday and it is expected weeks […]
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Translated Excerpt Q&A in The Hague by Pablo Gamez of Radio Netherland and Renee Castro, Minister of Foreign Relations, Costa Rica January 12, 2011 Question: You are referring to steps that this country is learning to give the light of this difficult situation. In the last few hours we heard the announcement about the creation […]
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The Nicaraguan ambassador in Holland, Carlos José Argüello, said and argued that the border set established than a century between the two countries has been changing naturally in the area near the mouth of the river San Juan and the so-called laguna Portillos, also known as Head Harbor. And for this reason Nicaragua asked the […]
Costa Rica is attempting to create an armed conflict with neighboring Nicaragua, Nicaraguan Army spokesman Juan Morales said citing counterintelligence information. Relations between the two countries became tense in November when the Nicaraguan military began widening the waterway in the San Juan River Delta and began establishing a military camp on the disputed Calero Island, […]
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Nicaragua is working at full speed to complete the dredging of the San Juan river and the construction of a canal, a situation which Costa Rica says is a serious risk of irreversible environmental damage to the area. According to the Nicaraguan daily, La Prensa, the government of Daniel Ortega hopes to have ready by […]
Edgard Walters, who belongs to the Association of Disabled and Active Divers of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, has been in a wheelchair since 2003, when he made his last dive for lobster in the waters of the Caribbean. Read Article
Cocaine In Toys From Costa Rica Seized in Nicaragua A total of 334 kg of cocaine, which entered Nicaragua hidden in a shipment of candy and toys, was seized during the Christmas weekend, officials said. The cocaine, reportedly from Costa Rica, was seized at the Peñas Blancas border crossing in southern Nicaragua, judicial support director […]
Costa Rica’s presidenta, Laura Chinchilla, announced that cables will be placed on the Colorado river to avoid navigation after hours. Although the presidenta was short on the details like the hours of prohibition, she did make it clear that the move is a precautionary measure in the face of a threat by the Nicaraguan army […]
Nicaragua and Costa Rica have accepted Guatemala to work in the meditation process of helping to resolve the border dispute between the two countries. Mexico is to also participate as a meditator. Read Article