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September 5, 2006 - Ambassdor Trivelli Tries Again for Right-Wing Unity While Momentum Shifts to FSLN; Shell Attempts Arbitration to Avoid Nemagon Conviction; Electricity Crisis Continues; Nicaragua Network Reforestation Brigade Returns; Election Fact Finding Delegation Prepares to Go
August 23, 2006 - Protestors Demand Union Fenosa's Contract be Cancelled; Electoral Campaign Begins and US Ambassador Renews Threats; Call for Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Intervene in Costa Rica; Abortion Becomes a Campaign Issue; Appeals Court Rejects Aleman Extradition to Panama
August 16, 2006 - Unprecedented Oil Price Means Worst Yet Water and Electricity Rationing; Bolaños Gives PETRONIC the Go Ahead to Rent Storage Tanks to ALBANIC; Nicaraguan Immigrants in Costa Rica Fear Application of “Inhumane” Immigration Law; CENIDH Reports Labor Rights Violations
August 9, 2006 - National Assembly Extends Voter Registration Deadline; Still No Agreement on Importation of Venezuelan Oil; US Medical Brigade Admits Distributing Out Of Date Medicines; Nicaragua Accepts OAS Human Rights Commission Suggestion of a "Friendly Solution"
August 2, 2006 - Electoral Council Denies Failure to Distribute Voter ID Cards Efficiently; Eight People Will Lose Sight in One or Both Eyes After US Medical Brigade Operations; Government Conditions Support for Oil Agreement on Cancellation of Debt; Halleslevens: Foreign Ministry Must Look Into Honduran Military Base; Bolano's Proposes Budget Supplemental Bill For "Unforeseen Expenditures"; WTO: Government Should Improve Infrastructure to Make Country More "Competitive"
July 26, 2006 - Managua Mayor Says Venezuelan Oil Could Be Imported through Costa Rica or Honduras; Inter-American Human Rights Commission Suggests Friendly Solution to Nicaragua’s Accusation Against; Ortega Questions Credibility of International Observers While MRS Fears Electoral Fraud; PLC Mayors Desert Party in Favor of Montealegre; Over 2.2 Million Nicaraguans Live on Less than US$1 a Day
July 20, 2006 - Two Separate Celebrations on July 19th; PLC Mayors Want to Remove Aleman as Party Leader; Candidates Try To Outdo Each Other with Promises; Consumers Groups Demand Revoking of Union Fenosa’s Contract; National Assembly Votes to Allow SAM-7 Destruction and Promises to Override Education Veto
July 12, 2006 - Carter Visits Nicaragua While Poll Shows Ortega in the Lead; Opinions Differ on Prospects for Nicaraguan Economy; Energy Crisis: “We Live in a State of Catastrophe!”
July 6, 2006 - Herty Lewites Buried in Jinotepe; Thomas Shannon: “Montealegre and Lewites Represent the Future” of Nicaragua; Instability of Energy Sector Creates Crisis for National Business; World Bank Confirms Reduction of Nicaragua’s Debt; RAAS Council Cancels Logging Permissions
July 3, 2006 - Special Edition - Herty Lewites Dies from a Heart Attack Sunday Afternoon
June 27, 2006 - Delegation from United States Condemns US Interference in Election; Environmentalists Question Government’s Decision at International Whaling Conference; Electoral Council Investigates “Strange” Movement of 42,000 people from Pacific to Caribbean; President to Veto Bill Which Would Ban All School Fees and Voluntary Payments
June 26, 2006 - Rizo Distances Himself from Alemán as US Steps up Pressure; Ortega Threatens to Accuse Bolaños of Election Law Violations; Cement Company Will not be Returned to Somoza Family; 130 Nicaraguans Travel to Cuba as Part of Operation Miracle; World Bank Suggests Renegotiation of Internal Debt; Judge in Texas Orders Dole to Suspend Out-of-Court Talks with Banana Workers in Nicaragua; Nicaragua Network Pre-Election Delegation Meets with Ambassador Trivelli
June 13, 2006 - Zoellick Demands OAS Observation in Nicaragua ASAP; Caldera Accuses Chávez of Intervention at OAS General Assembly; Assembly Ratifies Timber Logging Ban; No Solution in Sight Yet in Transport Crisis; CPDH Accuses Ortega of Genocide
June 6, 2006 - Alemán Admits PLC Is in Crisis; Consumers Plan Massive Protest While Authorities Fail to Provide Solution to Energy Crisis; Violent Protests Against Bus Fares Continue After Short Ceasefire; Megaproject to Clean up Lake Managua Begins; Environmental Emergency Decree “Does Not Exist”; Venezuelan Deputies Visit Nicaragua; Oil Deal at Risk For Lack of Storage Space
May 30, 2006 - FSLN Announces Vice Presidential Candidate and Platform; Aleman Attempts to Tighten Grip on Party Anger PLC Leaders; Supreme Court Organizes for New Year; Government and Union Fenosa Exchange Blame for Power Cut-Offs; No End in Sight of Escalating Violence on Managua’s Streets; Amnesty International Criticizes Nicaraguan Government on Awas Tingi
May 23, 2006 - Panamanian Judge Issues International Arrest Warrants Against Alemán; National Assembly Paralysis Leads to Outbreaks of Violence; Energy Crisis Deepens; Lewites Picks Running Mate; Right May Yet Unify; Amnesty International Highlights Human Rights Abuses in Nicaragua
May 17, 2006 - Political Parties Register Alliances for General Election; Government and Doctors Sign Agreement After a Six Month Health Strike; Diverse Reactions to Bolaños’ State of Emergency Decree on Timber Logging; Transportation Crisis Creates Anarchy on Managua’s Streets; MARENA Approves Hotel Construction within Chococente Reserve; Threatens Turtles
May 10, 2006 - Doctors’ Attempt to Occupy Ministry Results in 88 Arrests and 20 Injured; Bolaños Decrees Economic Emergency Due to Widespread illegal Timber Logging; Details of “Biggest Fraud in Nicaragua’s History” Could Affect Election Results; Montealegre Refuses PLC Offer; Nicanet's Anti-Election Interference Campaign Moves Forward
May 3, 2006 - Mayors’ Agreements with Venezuela Attacked; Bolaños Unmoved by Doctors’ Hunger Strike; US Cancels PLC Deputy’s Visa; Nicanet Condemns US Election Intervention; Executive Increases Pressure to Destroy SAM-7 Missiles; National Workers Front Protests Against “16 Years of Misery”
April 25, 2006 - Trivelli Fails to Unify Right-Wing; Nicaragua Network Condemns Election Interference; National Economic Crisis Deepens as Oil Prices Soar to Unprecedented Heights; Multinationals Begin Exploring Nicaragua’s Oil Reserves; Doctors Occupy Hospitals and Start Hunger Strike; Oxfam and Civil Coordinator Announce Campaign Against IMF Conditions; Ortega and Marenco Visit Venezuela to Sign Contract with Venezuelan Oil Company; Head of US Southern Command visits Nicaragua
April 18, 2006 - Montealegre Loses Support While PLC Moves Closer to Trivelli; No Agreement Yet Between Doctors and Government; Water Crisis in Las Minas; Nicaragua Network Holds National Leadership Meeting This Weekend
April 12, 2006 - Trivelli Offers to Finance Right-Wing Unity Primary Elections; Call State Department!; FETSALUD Announces End of Five Month Strike; Fifty Percent of Buses Back on Managua's Streets; First Meeting of Indigenous Communities of the Pacific; Dramatic Story of Nicaraguan Captured by US Immigration Agents
April 5, 2006 - Jose Rizo Wins PLC Primary Elections; CAFTA Implemented in Nicaragua and Honduras; Deputies Ask Government To Explain Trivelli's Interference; Out-Of-Court Settlement with Dole Possible; Frustration for Managuans as City Bus Stoppage is on Again
March 28, 2006 - US Ambassador Trivelli Defends Intervention In Nicaraguan Politics! Tell State Department He Should; World Water Day Marked By Protests; Health Worker Strike Continues; Police Take Over Hospitals; Assembly Passes CAFTA Enabling Legislation
March 21, 2006 - Conflict over North Atlantic Coast Regional Council Seats Resolved; New Majority in the National Assembly Approves Two CAFTA Laws; Political Party News; ENACAL Breaks Promise to End Water Rationing; Ortega Accuses the U.S. Of Meddling in Nicaragua's Internal Affairs
March 14, 2006 - Judge Returns Property To Byron Jerez; U.S. Human Rights Report Accuses Nicaraguan Judicial System of Corruption; RAAN and RAAS Regional Council Elections Numbers Announced; ENACAL President Promises not to Privatize Water; No Resolution in Sight in Transportation Stoppage; Central American Presidents Call for Debt Relief; Rat Plague and Hunger Continue on the Atlantic Coast
March 8, 2006 - Constitutional Liberal Party (PLC) Garners Most Votes In RAAN And RAAS Elections; Negroponte Watching Nicaraguan Elections "Closely"; Health Workers Strike Continues; Malfeasance At ENACAL Revealed As Opposition To Water Privatization Grows; Mining and Processing Of Minerals Affect Citizens' Health
February 28, 2006 - Controversies over Atlantic Coast Elections on March 5 Continue; Ethics and Transparency Demands Removal of Electoral Council Members; No End Yet to Doctors' and Health Workers' Strike; Nicaragua's Debt to be Reduced by US$700 Million; CAFTA Legislation Held up in National Assembly
February 22, 2006 - IMF and Business Group Reject Tax That Would End Bus Strike; Doctors Strike Continues but Doctors Resume Seeing Some Emergency Patients; Controversies Over Atlantic Coast Elections Continue; Bush Administration Says That Nicaragua Has Not Escaped Influence of Chavez; Observers Agree: Four Candidates for President in November; CAFTA Bills Go Before National Assembly
February 16, 2006 - Transportation Back to Normal, but Doctors Continue Strike; National Assembly Discusses Destruction of SAM-7s; Dole and Some Nemagon Victims Negotiating Out of Court; Mayangnas (Sumos) Demand the Removal of Invaders on their Land
February 8, 2006 - Ambassador Lays Out Conditions For Cooperation; PLC And FSLN Deputies Promise To Support Doctors' Demands; Public Transportation Strike In Managua; Education Minister Signs Agreement To Benefit Teachers; Minister Of Trade: Implementation Of CAFTA Is Near
February 1, 2006 - Tension Rises as Doctors' Negotiations with Health Ministry Fall Through; OAS Electoral Observation Mission Meets with Electoral Council; Transportation Cooperative Members Threaten Full Strike; Electricity Price Hike in The Hands of Supreme Court; Food Inaccessible in RAAN as Prices Reach Unprecedented Levels; Managua Residents Complain About Low Salaries
January 25, 2006 - Health Sector Strike Continues; Labor Ministry Declares it Illegal; National Assembly Finally Elects 2006 Leadership; Bolaños Pushes for Laws Required by IMF, IDB and CAFTA; US Supports Bolaños Referendum Proposal; IMF Reactivates Economic Program with Nicaragua; Announces Debt Cancellation
January 18, 2006 - Nemagon Victims Put Lien on Use of "Shell"; Actions Held to Protest Costa Rican Immigration Law; US Government Promoting Erasure of Lines between Central American Military and Police Institutions; 60% of Managua Residents Without Water; Consumer Defense Groups Step Up Resistance to Electricity Price Hike
January 12, 2006 - National Assembly Fails to Elect Leadership Board for the First Time in History; At Least Half a Million Nicaraguan Adults Cannot Vote; Water Price to Go Up While Managua Suffers Water Cut-Offs; Still No End in Sight for Health Sector Strike; IMF Mandates Only Minimal Salary Increase
January 4, 2006 - Giant Tilapia Farm Threatens Lake Cocibolca; Did the Latin American Moderate Left Save Herty Lewites?; Union Fenosa Authorized to Increase Price of Electricity by 7%; Government Admits Illegal Tree Cutters Are "Protected"
December 26, 2005 - IMF Confirms Debt Relief; Humboldt Center To Propose Reforms To General Water Law; Undercover Journalist Reveals The Truth About Coffee Pickers' Lot; ANDEN Proposes Beginning School Year In May
December 22, 2005 - US Congress Passes Resolution Asking Bush To Intervene In Nicaragua's Elections; IMF Plan To Delay Debt Relief Thwarted; National Workers Front Submits Legal Appeal Against DR-CAFTA
December 14, 2005 - Heavy Rains Caused Contamination Of The Tipitapa River; IMF Outlines Final Conditions For Full Debt Relief; Bolaños Requests Electoral Observation From OAS; Water Rationing Affects Large Part Of Managua; Doctors Suspend Strike After Unsuccessful Meeting With Authorities
December 1, 2005 - US Court Throws Out Nemagon Judgment; National Assembly Passes IMF-Mandated Budget; Minister of Labor Threatens to Declare Continuing Health Strike Illegal; ENACAL Requests 15% Increase in Water Tariff for 2006
November 22, 2005 - US Wants Aleman off the Political Scene; Health Sector Strike Continues into Second Week; Executive Sends Budget Proposal to Assembly Committee; Plague of Rats Devours Crops Left by Beta; Panamanian Justice and Governance Ministry Describe Attorney's Actions as Illegal
November 17, 2005 - Nicaraguan Authorities Delay Start of Aleman Panama Case; Trivelli And Ortega In Verbal Battle; Health Sector Strike Begins; IMF Mission Arrives in Nicaragua While Committee Discusses Economy Bills; US$2.1 Million Required to Repair Damage to Infrastructure Caused by Beta; Relations between Costa Rica and Nicaragua Continue to Get Worse
November 9, 2005 - Thousands In Need Of Food After Beta Strikes While Bolaños Refuses British Offer Of Aid; PLC Adamant About Amnesty Law While US Officials Express 'Concern' About The Proposal; Transnational Company Destroys Water Sources In Chinandega; Coffee Crops In Danger Of Being Lost Due To Condition Of Roads
October 25, 2005 - National Assembly Passes Framework Law; IMF Demands 25% Increase in Electricity Rate; National Assembly Passes Framework Law; Eight Groups of Nemagon Victims Unite; MARENA Rules all Harvesting of Sea Turtles and Tuttle Eggs Illegal
October 19, 2005 - Ortega Announces New Agreement with Bolaños and End of Pact; House of Representatives Considers Interventionist Resolution on Nicaragua; ENACAL Announces Rise in Water Rates While NGOs Call for Action to Prevent Privatization; Rumsfeld Confident About Resumption of Military Cooperation with Nicaragua; World Food Program Sends Much Needed Food Supplies to Miskito Communities
October 11, 2005 - National Assembly Approves DR-CAFTA; Hurricane Stan and Tropical Storms Cause Devastation in Central America; Robert Zoellick visits Nicaragua to Pressure Political Parties; Sandinista "Democratic Left" Joins Herty Lewites; Dole Denounces National Assembly Resolution as Unconstitutional
October 6, 2005 - FSLN Councilors in RAAS Support Lewites; Hurricane Stan hits Central America and Mexico; PLC and FSLN Continue with Process of Lifting of Immunity; Vice President Resigns in Order to Dedicate Himself Full Time to Presidential Campaign; Political Conflict with Costa Rica Emerges Over Rio San Juan; Human Rights Commission Seeks Family Life Regime for 400 Prisoners
September 27, 2005 - Political power struggle continues; End of bus strike and electricity rationing comes as good news for Nicaraguans; Aleman granted Family Life Regime; Cheap Venezuelan petroleum will benefit taxis and buses; Advances made in talks between government and Nemagon victims; Wal-Mart buys one-third of Central America's largest super-market chain
September 13, 2005 - Civil society marches against CAFTA; PLC won’t pressure FSLN for CAFTA passage; Electricity and water rationing begins across Nicaragua; Bolaños looks for international support after last week’s Supreme Court decisions; Famine in Waspam when floods and rats destroy food
September 7, 2005 - Supreme Court's rulings frustrate U.S. envoy Garza; Bolaños to meet with Chavez about reduced-price petroleum; Pressure on Ortega to forsake immunity; Chinandega court rules companies must pay banana; Week of action against DR-CAFTA announced
August 30, 2005 - Dates set for Aleman's court cases in Panama and USA; New study shows high levels of hunger in Nicaraguan countryside; Farmers demand urgent road repairs; Ruth Herrera says DR-CAFTA will bring water privatization; US court rules in favor of Nemagon victims
August 23, 2005 - U.S. intervenes as political parties form alliances ; Liberals will pressure for ratification of DR-CAFTA after National Assembly recess; Prime suspect in journalist’s murder case turns himself in as investigation continues; Bolaños “not frightened” by possible removal of his immunity from prosecution
August 16, 2005 - National Assembly out for recess without setting date for DR-CAFTA; Assembly to discuss removal of immunity for President Bolaños and three ministers; Polls show Lewites and Montealegre most popular political figures; Christian Alternative Party nomin; National Assembly leadership agrees to discuss Nemagon victims’ demands; Many primary school children shorter than normal by WHO standards
August 9, 2005 - FSLN temporarily blocking CAFTA from reaching National Assembly; Ortega: Garza has decided 2006 presidential campaign ticket; Dialogue to begin again on Aug. 15 "with or without the Executive"; National Assembly to discuss bill to protect Nicaragua against invasion of genetically modified orga; From bad to worse for Bolaños
August 2, 2005 - DR-CAFTA ratified in US House of Representatives; Aleman free for two days as power struggle in Nicaragua intensifies; Destruction of Sam-7 missiles on Garza’s agenda; From bad to worse for Bolaños; DR-CAFTA ratified in US House of Representatives
July 19, 2005 - Efforts to re-ignite dialogue continue; Anti-pact march held in Granada; Political parties and candidates in maneuvers; Daniel Ortega: Garza should stay home; Textile factory owners demand the passage of DR-CAFTA
July 12, 2005 - No progress in impasse between executive and legislative branches; Oliver Garza to Nicaragua on "special mission"; Social action groups plan sit in, marches for water rights; Former banana workers in new conflict over passports; Labor Ministry blocks Ford supplier from organizing
July 6, 2005 - Political Conflicts Continue as OAS Returns; CENIDH Documents Labor Violations; CAFTA Opinions across the Board in Nicaragua; US Government Sends Support and Supplies to Nicaraguan Police; Nicaragua a Bit Shaken
June 28, 2005 - Tempest in Teapot over Date of Next General Elections; Nicaragua Fails to Sign Anti-Water Privatization Declaration; Nicaraguan Civil Society Leaders Speak Out as DR-CAFTA Sent to US Congress; Aid and Debt Relief
June 23, 2005 - OAS: "Nicaragua has deep divisions"; Anti-Pact Demonstration Draws Thousands; Foreign Investment Comes to a Halt; Nicaragua to Receive Funds from Bush's Millennium Challenge Account; Desert Areas Given Attention; Child Labor Acknowledged
June 14, 2005 - Nicaragua among Countries to Receive Debt Relief; Organization of American States to Intervene in Nicaragua; Possibilities for Renewable Energy Ignored; CAFTA Committee Report to National Assembly Still Not Released; Microlenders Lent US$150 million Last Year
June 7, 2005 - State of Emergency: Energy; Battles Continue over Formation of SISEP; New coalitions form around controversies; Companies bid for geothermal concessions; Tourism increases in 2005; Mil Colores factory not paying into Social Security
May 31, 2005 - Energy Crisis Deepens; Farmers Demand Development Bank; Distrust Undermines National Dialogue; New Laws Proposed Against Environmental Destruction
May 24, 2005 - Visa Denial Brouhaha Persists; US$115 Million at Stake as Union Fenosa Threatens to Leave Nicaragua; Uncertainty Over Renewal of IMF Economic Program; Disaster Prevention Without Funds as First Torrential Rains Strike
May 17, 2005 - National Assembly Establishes New Property Institute, and U.S. Withdraws Visas from 89 Sandinistas a; CAFTA Passage in Nicaragua Doubtful; Nemagon Victims Sign Agreement with Government; Consumer Defense Network: "Energy Crisis is a Fraud"
May 10, 2005 - US State Department: Radical Populism is as Dangerous as Terrorism; Bus Protests in Tipitapa; Still No Assembly Decision on DR-CAFTA; Temporary Pension for Nemagon Victims Proposed by Assembly Committee; FSLN Labor Leader Announces "Front of Popular Struggle"
May 3, 2005 - Subsidy for Managua Buses Ends Week of Extreme Violence; IMF Cuts Off Loans to Nicaragua; Nemagon Case Taken up in Venezuela; Forest Fires Continue to Burn Uncontrolled; Rural Women Speak Out Against DR-CAFTA; Nicaragua Attempts to Buy Cheaper Petroleum from Venezuela
April 25, 2005 - Violence Between Students and Bus Drivers; Bolaños Orders National Police Deputy Director into Retirement Without Explanation; EU Conditions US$120million in Aid on Political Stability and IMF Agreement; National Water Crisis Continues; Over 10,000 Hectares of Protected Area Destroyed by Fire in RAAN
April 18, 2005 - Huge Protest Against DR-CAFTA in Managua; Nemagon Victims Maintain Hunger Strike; Violent Student Protests Continue Against 3-Cordoba Bus Fare; Executive Leaves National Dialogue; Assembly to Decrease Officials' Salaries Except for their Own
April 11, 2005 - Nemagon Case will be Presented to United Nations; Government Provides no Solution for Transport Crisis; Government Raises Minimum Wage by 15% and Electricity by 11.82%; Rivers Affected by Actions of Private Enterprises; International Journalism Associations Concerned About the "Arce Law"; State Institutions in Legal Limbo
April 4, 2005 - Dole Offers Investment for Immunity from Banana Workers' Claims; Soaring Gas Prices Cause Chaos; Contradictory Court Decisions Make Constitutional Reforms Uncertain; Honduran Claims Are Denied that FARC Members Operate in Nicaragua; Ocotal Experiences Rationing as Dipilto River Dries Up
March 28, 2005 - Holy Week Drownings Not All the News This Week; Government Signs Accord with Banana Workers; Rumsfeld Visits Latin America; Government Fails to Pay Energy Subsidies Causing Likelihood of Electricity Rationing; Amnesty for Aleman Likely to be Discussed by the National Assembly Next Week; Cardinal Obando y Bravo Will Retire in the Next Few Days
March 21, 2005 - FSLN and PLC Put Conditions on the Ratification of CAFTA; Ortega's popularity plummets with FSLN grassroots; US Freezes Economic Military Aid; Soaring Gas Prices Threaten Nicaraguan Economy; Nicaraguans see their situation as more dire than ever
March 15, 2005 - Lewites Holds Political Event in Masaya; DR-CAFTA Likely to be Ratified in Mid April; Bolaños: "They Could Send Me to Jail"; Nemagon Victims Threaten to Burn Themselves Alive; Rural Communities without Water
March 8, 2005 - Ortega Named Sandinista Presidential Candidate; Nemagon Victims Continue Struggle; US State Department Report Accuses Judicial System of Corruption and Police of Torture; 100% of Food Aid Received by Nicaragua is Genetically Modified
March 1, 2005 - Lewites, Tinoco attacked and expelled from FSLN; Mejia Godoy Irked; US Steps Up Pressure for Destruction of Sam-7s; Civil Society Groups Demand Assembly Not Ratify CAFTA; Three Killed and Ten Wounded as Police Fire at Landless Squatters; Nemagon Victims Return to the Capital; Sister Communities Conference Moving Forward
February 22, 2005 - Buyer of SAM-7 Claims He Was Paid by CIA; End of Teachers Strike; This week is Stop DR-CAFTA Week; San Nicolas Without Water While MARENA Supports Agribusiness
February 15, 2005 - Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Striking Teachers; Liberals and Sandinistas Want to Visit IMF to Discuss Budget; Presidential Veto Overridden for New Arms Law; Contaminated Water Causes Rotavirus Outbreak in Central America; Danger of Armed Conflict between Honduran Army and Indigenous Communities
February 8, 2005 - Teachers' Strike Declared Illegal; New Water Law Opens Privatization Spigot; New Concerns that Bolaños will Declare State of Emergency; Sam-7 Controversy Continues; Panamanian Attorneys Closing in on Aleman; Law to Return Cement Company to Somoza Family Being Drafted; Exploitation and Abuse in Free Trade Zones
February 1, 2005 - National Dialogue Continues; US Accuses Nicaraguan Army of Hiding SAM-7 Missiles; Aleman and Jerez Notified about Panamanian Court Case; Teacher Strike Goes Ahead
January 24, 2005 - ENACAL Ordered to Suspend Bidding Process; Ortega Against Ex Mayor Lewites Standing for President; Registration Goes Ahead in Majority of Schools; National Dialogue Begins but the Crisis Continues; Nicaraguan Jails in "Critical State"
January 18, 2005 - Tensions Rise and Fall and Date for National Dialogue is Set; Aleman Likely to be Pardoned by Easter; Water Rationing in Managua Likely in March; Promising Moves on Teacher Demands; Landslide Victims Have Still Not Been Relocated
January 11, 2005 - Sandinistas Gain Presidency of National Assembly; Institutional Crisis Deepens; Water Privatization Fight Escalates; Teachers Warn Full Strike Likely To Go Ahead; 152,000 Babies Will be Born in Nicaragua in 2005
January 5, 2005 - Sandinistas Likely to Win Presidency of National Assembly; Prep for Political Dialogue Begins; Future of Garment Industry Uncertain; New Army Chief Sworn In by Bolaños
January 2, 2005 - National Dialogue Continues; US Accuses Nicaraguan Army of Hiding SAM-7 Missiles; Aleman and Jerez Notified about Panamanian Court Case; Teacher Strike Goes Ahead
December 21, 2004 - Other government branches retaliate against Bolaños' threats; Proposed water law criticized by civil society groups; Pesticide becomes available again despite shocking increase in number of deaths; Discovery of underground cavern causes great enthusiasm in Nicaragua
December 14, 2004 - Power is shifting from President to National Assembly; Power shift may repriortize 2005 budget; Offers submitted as privatization of Nicaragua water moves ones step closer; Free trade zone workers protest outside the Ministry of Labor; ANSWER Coalition calls for protesters to "line inaugural route."
December 6, 2004 - Aleman goes home; Budget limited by internal debt; More constitutional amendments; New case of AIDS reported every day in Nicaragua
December 1, 2004 - Bolaños' Power Continues to Erode; Civil Coordinator warns of disaster if health and education budgets are approved; 334 SAM-7 missiles destroyed as controversy continues; Two Free Trade Zone factories temporally shut down by MARENA; Religious Network speaks out in defense of water
November 23, 2004 - State Dept. wants Nicaraguan "democratic forces" to reunite to avoid Sandinista victory; Aleman's lawyer believes he may be free within weeks; Bolaños' case will go to Supreme Court; Isolated communities with no access to justice system resolve their own problems; Water bill prohibits privatization of vital liquid; Community group carries out work to save endangered turtles from extinction
November 16, 2004 - US Interference Increases After Sandinista Electoral Victory; Country Outraged by Murder of Young Journalist by Outgoing Mayor; Price of Beans Falls But Remains More Than 100% Higher Than Usual; Number of Child Workers at Managua Traffic Lights Soars; ANSWER Calls for Counter-Inaugural Demonstration
November 9, 2004 - FSLN Sweeps to Victories throughout Nicaragua; Bolanos' Problems Continue to Compound; Regional Attorney-General Asks for Case against Tsokos to be Re-opened; Lobsters Under Extinction Threat
November 1, 2004 - Bolaños' presidency continues in legal jeopardy; Privatized Electricity Company Loses US$4.1 million; Price of Basic Food Hits All-time High; "Education for All" Every Day More Distant; Coffee Harvest "Late and Low" According to Predictions
October 26, 2004 - OAS Mission Completes Visit; Moore Threatens No Aid; Supreme Court Re-affirms Jail Sentence for Comandante Modesto; Bolaños Accused of Altering Election Information; RAAN Environmental Commission Demands Government Help
October 18, 2004 - Is Bolaños preparing for a "self coup?"; CAFTA Delayed / CAFTA Opposed; Health Ministry to Promote "People's Pharmacies"
October 12, 2004 - Anti-Water Privatization Struggle Wins Temporary Victory; Confusion Over Fate of Bolaños; Teachers and Doctors Threaten Strike in January; Jury Finds Byron Jerez Innocent!
October 6, 2004 - Municipal elections heat up; US Sec. of Defense warns C.A. gangs may have links to "terrorists"; Government admits plans to sell beans donated for Cerro Musún victims; Lake Nicaragua in danger of becoming as contaminated as Lake Managua; Campesinos learn the benefits of growing crops without the use of chemicals
September 28, 2004 - Campesinos against US free trade agreement; Workers protest against plans to reform Social Security; Jinotegans plan large scale disruption until roads are improved; Nicaraguan Social Movement meets with ENACAL director on water privatization; Attorney General meets with the Panamanian officials investigating Aleman and Jerez
September 21, 2004 - ENACAL invites water management bids; Nicaragua's growing dependence on imports; MINSA acts as if the Atlantic Coast doesn't exist; Report shows Nicaraguans spend more time "having fun" than working
September 14, 2004 - Locals Protest Privatization of Pie de Gigante Beach; Teachers and Health Workers Step Up Protests; Judge Explains Away Aleman Hospital Stay; Third Annual Memorial for 9/11 Victims calls on US to Leave Iraq
September 7, 2004 - Coffee Farmers "Treated as Third or Fourth Class Citizens"; 400 Dead through Nemagon; RAAN Strike Finally Wins Government Attention; 25% Rise in Living Costs; FNT Calls for Emergency Meeting; Canadian Firm Accused of Illegal Gold Mining in the BOSAWAS Reserve
August 31, 2004 - Bolaños Threatens to Use the Army; Counter-CAFTA Movement takes Heart as Costa Ricans take to Streets; Model Prison a "Time bomb"; "Sixth Sense" Wins International Prize
August 23, 2004 - Literacy Veterans Kick off Commemorative Year; Calls for National Dialogue as Fiallos Jailed; Medicines Set to Rise by 15%; Gold Mining Company Poisoning River, Wrecking Environment; Nicaraguans "Dying Like Dogs" in Costa Rica for Lack of Medical Care
August 16, 2004 - Government Failing to Provide Food Security; Marenco Announces New Literacy campaign; President's Commission Claims Trans-Isthmus Canal is Feasible; Parmalat Suffers Intervention; Bolaños "Profoundly Concerned"; Nicaraguan Army "Poorest in Central America"
August 2, 2004 - Army Destroys SAM-7 Missiles; Prosecution of Trade Unionists Moves Forward; Church Denies Involvement in Plot to Overthrow Bola?os; "Aid Waiver" Extended to Nicaragua; Post-Mitch Reforestation Plan to be Expanded; Supreme Court Justice Slams Government for "Privatizing Justice"; 25th Anniversary Remembrances
July 19, 2004 - 25 Years Since the Triumph; Nicaragua Network Delivers Open Letter at Historic Concert; Somoza's National Guard "Made Fatal Mistake" Years before Revolution; President Bolaños Refuses to Amend Probity Declaration
July 14, 2004 - Big Demonstration Against Water Privatization; Victory for the Universities; "Informal Sector" Workers Take to Streets; "Priests of the Poor" Expelled by Bishop
July 6, 2004 - The Rains Continue; Union Members Prosecuted; FSLN Offers Total Support to Cuba Amid Preparation for 25th Anniversary; New Price Record for Coffee; Nicaragua and Honduras Work Together to Protect Forests
June 28, 2004 - Devastating floods affect hundreds; Aleman suffers twin blows; FETSALUD says brief strike a success; Meningitis outbreak raises concern; Coffee niche markets are profitable
May 31, 2004 - Controversy over 6% for Universities Continues; New Political Party Formed to Counter PLC and FSLN; Banana Workers Wait in Vain for Twenty Million; CAFTA Threatens 500,000 Jobs in Central America; Costa Rica Will Help Camilo Mejia; Central America to Begin Trade Talks with European Union; Pressure Builds to Update "Basic Basket" of Goods; Small Coffee Farmers Receive Best Prices; Northern Towns to Receive Electricity
May 27, 2004 - Violent Student Protests Demand 6% of Budget for Universities; CAFTA to Be Signed on May 28; Camilo Mejia's Mother Will Appeal Son's Sentence; Privatization of Pension System Held Up; Coffee Production and Prices Are Up; Families Still Camped at Las Tunas
May 17, 2004 - Acosta Appeals Sentence Against Husband's Killers; Hardline PLC Makes US an Offer; Bolaños Asks Ortega to Intercede over Oil Crisis; Impoverished Farm Workers March on Managua; Family Day Goes Unremarked; Poisoned Sugar Workers Seek Justice
May 11, 2004 - US Making "Unacceptable Changes" to CAFTA Text; US Steps up Visa Cancellations; Residents of Ticuantepe Reclaim Water; Gas Hikes will Cause 10% Rise in Production Costs; Nicanet Under Attack by Vicious Virus; Sgt. Camilo Mejia offers to testify in Congress to Iraq Torture and Abuse; ANSWER files torture FOIA; Negroponte Confirmed as US Ambassador to Iraq; March on the Pentagon called for June 5
May 3, 2004 - "Pure Savagery" Response to US/UK Torture Accounts; Ortega Blasts US and Neoliberalism on May Day; Bolaños Tells Labor Minister "Don't be Stingy"; "Liberalism Equals Illiteracy"; Nueva Segovia Fast Becoming a "Pine Cemetery"
April 26, 2004 - Nicaraguan Killed in Iraq as March on Pentagon Announced; Nicaragua and Costa Rica Join Forces to Save San Juan River; Government's Top Development Project Stymied; Bolaños Calls for National Dialogue; Assembly/Government Decision to Scrap SAM-7s Challenged; Government "Guarantees" Marching Coffee Workers Five Acres of Land
April 19, 2004 - Protest Week in DC; Cardinal calls Nicaraguans "A Crucified People"; Nemagon Case Goes to US Court; Political Soap Opera Continues; Power System "On Verge of Collapse"; Nicaraguans Sit On Geothermal Bonanza; Schoolchildren to Challenge Politicians during World Education Week
April 5, 2004 - Camilo Mejia Sent to a "War Based on Lies"; PLC Assembly Members Engaging in "Covert Amnesty" Attempt for Alemán; Coffee Workers Warn Government and Police; Civil Society Organizations Unite against Maquila Abuses; "World's First" Worker-Owned Maquila
March 29, 2004 - US Military to Court-Martial Camilo Mejia; CENIDH Accuses Bolaños of Lying to Poisoned Banana Workers; Army Angry at US/Bolaños Insistence on Destruction of SAM-7s; Jerez Reveals Further PLC Fraud; Estelí Hosts 10th Gathering of Peasant Innovators
March 23, 2004 - Banana Workers Return Home in Triumph; Growing Protests Against War and CAFTA; Alemán Re-Incarcerated in Regular Prison; Teachers' Strike Begins; Rejection of Water Privatization and Price Rise; Camilo Mejia Declares Himself Conscientious Objector
March 16, 2004 - "No!" to Water Privatization; Parmalat Disaster Threatens Milk Chaos; Enormous New Industrial Park Heralds Fresh Maquila Invasion; Nicaraguan Coffee Triumphs in Japan; Zoilamerica Narvaez Reconciles with her Mother; Nemagon Victims Win Another Case
March 8, 2004 - Massive Rise in Violence Against Women Recorded; Banana Workers Update; CAFTA Masks Hidden Water Privatization; PLC Hoist With Alemán Petard; US Consortium Wins Bid for East-West Fiber Optic Link
March 1, 2004 - Ortega Calls for Banana Worker Unity; FSLN Threatens Aleman Control of National Assembly; Government Accused of Hiding Tax Income to Pay Private Banks; Illiteracy Close to 40%; Managua Water Supply Under Double Threat
February 23, 2004 - Nicaragua Network Celebrates 25 Years of Solidarity; President Bush Announces Intention to Sign CAFTA; Nemagón-Affected Workers Fast, Approach Cardinal, Threaten Crucifixions; Ortega Brands Bush "Coward"; Guadamuz Killer Claims He Acted Alone; Comptroller Demands Expulsion of US Ambassador; FSLN Official Prevented from US Transit
February 9, 2004 - Comandante Modesto Accuses Ortega; Indigenous People Take Up Arms to Defend Land; Nicaraguan Deserter Declares Iraq War "Immoral" and "Horrific"; US Ambassador Warns Against Releasing Aleman/SAM-7s; New US Immigration Hikes "Will Affect Remittances"
February 2, 2004 - US Companies Sue Sick Nicaraguan Banana Workers; CAFTA Text Released; Nicaraguans "Hunted Down" in Costa Rica; "Base Community" Priest Jailed in USA
January 26, 2004 - IMF/World Bank to Cancel Debt Under HIPC; Prices Skyrocket with Little Control; Confusion Grows Over Second Iraq Contingent; "Super-corrupt" Aleman Demonstrates His Power; Titanium Discovered in RAAN
January 20, 2004 - FSLN Shares Elections with Convergence Candidates; PLC to Poll Supporters; Failure of IMF-Mandates Obvious in 2003 Education Statistics; US to Prohibit Entry to Corrupt Public Servants; Costa Rican Farmers Call for Less Strict Immigration Controls
January 12, 2004 - FSLN Shut Out of National Assembly Leadership; FSLN Shut Out of National Assembly Leadership; IMF and World Bank to Recommend Nicaragua for HIPC
January 5, 2004 - Coffee Harvest Losing Workers to Costa Rica; National Assembly President Suffers Brain Hemorrhage/ Leadership in Question; Dora Maria Tellez Challenges CAFTA/Government Anti-Poverty Strategy; Jarquin Challenges Bolaños to Find New Funds; Ortega Celebrates 45 Years of the Cuban Revolution
December 29, 2003 - Managua's Earthquake 30 Years Before Iran; Postponing Elections: Aleman Pushes for Pardon; Bolaños-Ortega Rapprochement; "CAFTA Offers Risks and Opportunity for Labor," says Minister; Troops in Iraq Failing to Find More Funds; Calls for US Meat Ban
December 22, 2003 - HIPC Decision Postponed One Month; Liberals to Support CAFTA; FSLN Undecided; Special Summit of the Americas January 12-13 in Monterrey, Mexico; US to Return Millions Stolen By Aleman and Jerez
December 15, 2003 - Managua rocked by multiple demonstrations: Universities, CAFTA, and Women Prisoners; Environmentalists Slam Proposed Water Law; Jerez Prepares to Party at Beach Mansion
December 8, 2003 - Pact Falters, Aleman Sentenced, Elections Agreement Collapses; National Assembly Paralyzes Water Privatization; Nicaraguan Troops to Remain in Iraq Despite Attacks
December 1, 2003 - Ortega Seeks New Pact With Aleman-led PLC; Judge Méndez Releases Alemán to "Municipal Arrest"; Decision made on SAM-7s; Questions on Funding of Troops
November 24, 2003 - Two Found Guilty of Francisco Garcia Murder; Rebellion in the RAAN; Nicaragua Advances toward HICP Culmination Point; The Practicalities of CAFTA Hit Home; Protests of the FTAA and School of the Americas; FACS Former Director Defends Actions
November 19, 2003 - US Continues Pressure on Political Unity and SAM Missiles; Money Laundering Case against Former President Aleman; Sandino Foundation Head Caught in Fraud Scandal; More Nicaraguan Troops May to Go to Iraq; CAFTA Talks Continue; Water Rationing in Managua
November 10, 2003 - Powell's Heavy-Hand Irritates Nicaraguans & Solidarity Activists; Ortega Gambling Everything to Return to Power?; Nemagon Witness Claims US Transnationals Forced Testimony Change
November 4, 2003 - Consultative Group Meets in Managua; IMF Makes Final Determination of Nicaragua's HIPC Eligibility; Student Protesters and Police Continue to Clash; The Compromises of CAFTA; Protest against Colin Powell; 2004 Budget Discussions Continue; Municipal Elections of 2004 May Be Postponed
October 28, 2003 - Central Americans Question Progress in CAFTA Negotiations; IMF Will Release US$40 Million in Loans; Byron Jerez Goes Home; Texaco Challenged by Local Population; Nemagon cases come to the U.S.; University Community Plans Protest; 100,000 March to Bring the Troops Home
October 21, 2003 - End the Occupation Demo on Oct. 25; Water Bills Debated in National Assembly; NGOs Challenge National Development Plan; Texaco May Face Million Dollar Environmental Damage Claim; Bilwi Dock "On Point of Collapse"
October 15, 2003 - Eliva Blas gets visa; Teachers starve in protest; Bush Energy Company to Set to Gain from Nicaraguan Oil; Sandinistas protest Moore's interference; Toxic Water Ways
October 6, 2003 - Ambassador Admits Trying to Unite "Democratic Forces" Against Sandinistas; Former Contras to Claim Compensation from the US; US Promises Limited Agricultural Protection; Indigenous Peoples See Little Hope in National Development Plan; Population Influx into Capital Slows; Health Unions Win New Collective Agreement
September 29, 2003 - Teachers Take to the Streets; International Rights Jurist Attacks Bolaños on CAFTA; PLC and "Blue and White" Liberals in Talks; Nicaraguan Troops in Iraq Finally Receive Equipment; MARENA Exhibits Confusion over Free Trade Zone Contamination
September 22, 2003 - Anti-CAFTA March Frightens Negotiators; Inequalities in Coffee Trade Decried by Producer Nations; Navy Concerned at Massive Coast Deforestation; Indigenous Neglect Continues; PLC Under Intense US Pressure to Dump Alemán; Xabier Gorostiaga Dies
September 16, 2003 - CAFTA Talks in Managua; Cautious Optimism as WTO Talks Fail; Mounting Anger at Judge's Decision to Send Jerez Home; Government Unveils "Chimera" National Development Plan; Troops in Iraq Ill-Equipped; Mountain Leprosy Outbreak
September 8, 2003 - Coffee Workers Return to Encampments; China to Back "Grand Canal?"; National Convergence Will Field Candidates in Municipal Elections; OAS Experts Against Troops to Iraq
September 2, 2003 - Central American Human Rights Defenders at Risk; Taiwan Financing Nicaraguan Troops in Iraq; Trade Unionists/FSLN Challenge Government Position on CAFTA; Sergio Ramirez Declares Government Cultural Support "A Joke"; Energy Rationing Fears Fuel Renewed Government Interest in Renewables
August 25, 2003 - One Billion US Dollars to Prepare for CAFTA; Honduran Hints at New US Base; Bring the Troops Home; Education "On Point of Collapse"; Bishop Mata Asks that Alemán be Moved Again
August 18, 2003 - Aleman Buffeted by Series of Legal Blows; Justice's Family Threatened; Concern Grows as Nicaraguan Troops Enter Iraq; International Concern over Hunger in Nicaragua; Union Fenosa Claims to be Broke
August 4, 2003 - Fourteen Dead on Coffee March to Managua; Lack of Forest Management Leads to Terrible Deforestation; CAFTA Negotiations Reflect Top-Down Approach to Globalization
August 2, 2003 - Dry Canal Megaproject Still Alive; FSLN Prepares a New Set of Governmental Reforms; Indigenous Political Party Files Suit; Consultation Funds Used to Promote CAFTA; Somoza Family Returns to Politics
July 14, 2003 - US Misleading Central America on CAFTA; "Bolaños Will Bear Responsibility for Deaths in Iraq and in Nicaragua"; Major Drug Scandal Threatens Police; Environmental Ombudsman Death Threats to be Investigated; Bolaños Pitches Nicaraguan Canal to US investors
July 7, 2003 - At Last! Genuine Autonomy for the Atlantic Coast; Tsokos' Pet Judge Removed by Supreme Court; Protesters Demand Revocation of Fenosa Contract; Nicaragua Not Yet ready to Give Up Sam-7s; US Plant and Animal Health Rules Complicate CAFTA Negotiations
June 30, 2003 - Nicaraguan Government Casts Another Key Vote for USA; Jerez Mansion Seized; Borge: "Ortega Will Run for President in 2006"; Serious Groundwater Contamination from Free Trade Zone; RAAN Regional Council Calls for DELASA Contract to Be Cancelled
June 23, 2003 - US/Bolaños Accord on ICC Comes Under Fire; US Takes Aim at Nicaragua’s Sam-7 Missiles; Judge Jails Police for Investigating Murder; Consumer Groups Call for Electricity to be Re-nationalized; Jerez Gets Eight Years; Aleman's Properties Seized; Russian Federation Cancels More Nicaraguan Debt
June 9, 2003 - Alemán Attends Son's Graduation among Protests; Special Advocate for the Environment Will Press; Mothers Call on Bush to Bring National Guard Sons; Central American Social Movement Says "No" to Free Trade; U.S. Experts to Assist in Recovery of Stolen State Money
June 2, 2003 - National Assembly Honors Dorothy Granada; Nicaragua - U.S. Bilateral Trade Agreement "Only a Threat"; Political Controversy Surrounds Election of Supreme Court Justices; FNT Takes on Herty Lewites on Plastic Waste; INAFOR Declared "Non Grata" in Nandaime
May 27, 2003 - The Realities of Free Trade; Central Bank Debt Auction Brings 1,000 Offers; Privatization Money "Disappeared"; President Bolaños Promises not to Privatize Lake Apanas; Narcotics Trafficking Scandal Rocks Bluefields
May 21, 2003 - Central Bank to Auction Foreclosed Properties; National Assembly Approves US Military Trainers; Liberals Form New Political Party; Concessions to Four Firms for Oil Exploration
May 13, 2003 - Next Free Trade Meeting "Definitive"?; Supreme Court President Invites "Complaints" Over Alemán Treatment; Consumers' Network Blast Country's Leaders; Fresh Water Shark Facing "Suffocation"
May 5, 2003 - Bolaños, FSLN Hold Competing May Day Events; Nicaraguan Social Movement for Peace to Judge Bush and his Allies; and Takeover "Rescue" Without Bloodshed; President Bolaños Launches Investigation into Data Sales to U.S. Agencies; Cardenal Defends Cuba
April 28, 2003 - Ben Linder Murdered 16 Years Ago Today; Armed Ex-Contras Take Over Land; Supreme Court Definitively Rejects Zoilamerica Narvaez Case; Infor.net Shut Down; Economic News
April 21, 2003 - US Congress/Military to Visit Nicaragua Over Land Confiscations; Religious Community Holds Holy Week Vigil Outside US Embassy; Bolaños Liberals Go It Alone; Bolaños Announces Successful Tour
April 14, 2003 - Weekend Marks Solidarity and Anti-War Actions; Courts Demand Alemán "Patrimony" Final Reckoning; Nicaragua Raises Issue of Agriculture in CAFTA Talks; Ernesto Cardenal Honored; A Quarter Million Child Laborers
April 7, 2003 - LASC Mobilization, Anti-Iraq War Demo This Weekend; The Ugly Face of Privatization; MARENA to Kick Out Bosawas Settlers; Bolanos to Visit Bush Again; Gustavo Porras Blasts Health Ministry
March 31, 2003 - Mobilizations in Solidarity with Latin America and Against US War on Iraq April 10-15; Nicaraguans reject war; Indigenous Peoples are Still Discriminated Against; PLC Declares Itself in Opposition
March 25, 2003 - Violent repression of nude farmers; Bluefields judges called before disciplinary committee; Bolaños Denies Joining "Coalition of the Willing"; Consumers' Defense Network wins case in Supreme Court
March 17, 2003 - Census Bureau Releases Statistics on Women; Privatization of Water Company in Supreme Court; Chinandega Farmers Plan Nude Demonstration; What to Do When the War Starts
March 5, 2003 - CAFTA, Round Two; Nicaragua Embroiled with the WTO; Dora María Téllez Re-Elected to Lead MRS; March 15 Emergency Convergence on the White House; April 10-14 Actions to Stop US Interventions in Latin America
February 24, 2003 - Alemán's Convenient Hospitalization; Students Win Budget Battle; Pregnant Child Finally Receives Abortion; Controversy Continues; U.S. "Invests" in Army and Police; Emergency Convergence on White House March 15
February 17, 2003 - Nicaraguans March on Economic Issues and Against War; Bolaños & Opposition Agree on Budget Compromise; Action Alert!; US Citizen Sanctioned by MARENA
February 10, 2003 - Bolaños-National Assembly Fight Over IMF Requirements; Bolaños Accused of Negotiating Corruption; Alemán to Remain a Prisoner; Education Minister Admits 860,000 Children Out of School; Anti-War Week
February 3, 2003 - Anti-War Protest Outside US Embassy; Central American Court Finds for Alemán; Gas/Petroleum Exploitation Close But "Not Necessarily a Blessing"; First CAFTA Negotiations Concluded; Arrest Made in Francisco Garcia Murder
January 20, 2003 - IMF Threatens to Cut Off Support; FSLN Forms Commission to Monitor "Free Trade" Treaties; US Trial for Alemán?
January 13, 2003 - FNT Threatens Destabilization in Wake of Bolaños Report; Environment/Union Coalition Challenges "CAFTA"; Miskito Judges Reject New Legal Code
January 2, 2003 - Aleman Indicted and Under House Arrest.; "Milestone Victory" for Indigenous Peoples; CEPAD: "Today's Earthquake is Avoidable Hunger"
December 16, 2002 - Aleman Close to Going to Prison; New Budget Passed to Faint Praise; Further Limited Debt Relief Linked to IMF Programs; Banana Workers Win Major Award Against US Transnational
December 10, 2002 - IMF Agreement Violates U.S. and Nicaraguan Law--Call Congress!; Labor Ministry "To Act" to Help Lobster Divers; Cardinal to be Replaced Sooner Than Expected?
December 2, 2002 - US Suspends Alemán's Visa; Bishops Warn on "Free Trade", Challenge Privatization; Roads Threaten Harvests; Roo Shing Factory Still "Full of Abuses"
November 25, 2002 - U.S. Reacts to Failure to Remove Aleman's Immunity; IDB Considers Financing Internal Debt and Approves Development Loan; Tragedy of Lobster Divers Exposed; Government Expresses Support for Nemagon Victims; Farmers Threaten to Burn Auctioned Farms
November 20, 2002 - Assembly Fails to Lift Immunity!; Privatization under Attack on Several Fronts; Cases of Kwashiorkor in Coffee Areas Alarm U.N. Agency but not Health Ministry
November 4, 2002 - Bolaños Accused of Campaign Finance Law Violations; Agreement with IMF getting closer; Atlantic Coast Still Awaits Regulation of the Autonomy Law
October 21, 2002 - Largest anti-war rallies since Vietnam planned for Saturday; Tsokos Blasted by Attorney General for the Environment; Three Million Nicaraguans Below the Poverty Line; Water Rate Rise Blocked; Awas Tingni Community Starts Over
October 14, 2002 - Minister Admits to Growing School Drop-out Rate; Police Offer Reward for Francisco Garcia's Killer; October 12 Movement Challenges IMF/IDB
September 23, 2002 - Aleman’s Days are Numbered; Zoilamerica Narvaez Challenges Bolaños Administration; Activists arrive in DC to protest IMF and World Bank, Anti-War Actions Planned
September 16, 2002 - Two commemorations of two September 11ths; Coffee Accord Signed; Judge Méndez Delivers “Historic Ruling”
September 9, 2002 - Telethon for coffee workers of Matagalpa; Vice-Minister of Agriculture takes [a little] food to the hungry; 77% of Nicaraguans say "No!" to Privatization
September 5, 2002 - Outrage over Poverty Forum in Intercontinental Hotel; Reich Backs Bolaños; Protest the IMF and World Bank in D.C.—September 25-29!
August 26, 2002 - Forty-seven Votes Against Aleman!; The corruption of privatization; Tax on Corporations (For- and Not-For-Profit) Arouses Opposition; Otto Reich to visit Nicaragua
August 21, 2002 - Aleman took US$100 Million!; Coffee Crisis Continues; “IMF should be more flexible.”
August 12, 2002 - SOA Petitions Delivered to Army General Carrion; Bolaños Accuses Alemán of Massive Fraud; U.S. and Central America Plan Trade Talks for December
August 5, 2002 - Bolaños finds Aleman's secret foreign bank accounts; Protests against neo-liberal economic measures continue; Sign the letter to Ambassador Garza!
July 29, 2002 - US Cancels Arce Visa; RAAN Regional Council Calls for Halt to Oil Exploration Process; New Miskito nation announced!
July 23, 2002 - Ortega Blasts Globalization, US Interference, Corruption; Central American Forum Rejects Plan Puebla-Panamá; LASC Calls for Local Actions on October 12th; Endorse Call!
July 8, 2002 - Recording of Bolaños conversation with US Embassy causes; US continues to signal abandonment of Aleman; Former World Bank Chief Economist bashes neoliberalism; Environment Ministry criticized for authorizing lake contamination; Two Nicaraguans win record price for coffee
June 25, 2002 - Chaos in the RAAN; Indigenous People of Telpaneca Rebel; Possible Reversal of Privatization of Hydro-Power Generation
June 17, 2002 - U.S.-Developed Bean Would Put Nicaraguan Peasant Farmers “Out of the Market”; Worker Accuses Maquiladora Management of Causing Miscarriage; Riot Police Batter Coffee Workers; Trim Bissell, Campaign for Labor Rights Founder, Dies in Oregon
June 10, 2002 - Garza Revisits Property Issue while Ortega Remembers Anthem; Indigenous Leaders Challenge Alemán to Speed up Land Demarcation; Consternation Over Electric Power Price Hike; Call to Stop New Round of FBI Assaults on Civil Liberties
June 10, 2002 - Indigenous Leaders Challenge Alemán to Speed up Land; Consternation Over Electric Power Price Hike; Call to Stop New Round of FBI Assaults on Civil Liberties
June 3, 2002 - Anti-corruption news; Managua hit by first rains and Herty’s heart attack; Zoilamérica Narváez Files Before the Supreme Court; Demonstrations called to protest Ashcroft's Unleashing of CIA
May 27, 2002 - Environmentalists Accuse World Food Program and USAID of Distributing Genetically-Modified Foods and; Tough New Measures to Stop Illegal Logging; US “Retains” Alemán’s Visa
May 20, 2002 - Anti-corruption activities continue; Free trade hits barriers; First organic farmers' market inaugurated
May 15, 2002 - Canadian Investors Propose US$500 Million Oil Pipeline; 'Dry Canal' Discussions Anger Indigenous Communities; Bush Appoints First Woman U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua
May 7, 2002 - Former Government Officials Involved in Corruption Scandals Sent to Jail; Workers protest over minimum salary; Nicaragua sells hydroelectric plants to Enron, then to other
April 30, 2002 - Crack-down on corruption continues; Accord reached on coffee crisis; Roo Hsing Factory fires union organizers
April 22, 2002 - Enormous Crowds in DC Demand Peace; Vilma Nuñez defends Nicaragua Network; Conflict between legislative and executive branches of
April 15, 2002 - Unified Day of Resistance to War; Tsokos Claims Threats by Nicanet Environmental Committee; Forest Fire Threat Grows
April 10, 2002 - Husband of Indigenous Rights Lawyer Murdered; Alemán Formally Charged with Fraud; Reich Pressures Bolaños to Send Cuba Critic to UN
April 3, 2002 - Judgement on the Salvador Summit: "More Empty Words"; More Trouble for Alemán; Christian Path Party Slams IMF/World Bank
March 25, 2002 - FSLN Party Congress Makes a Few Changes; Protesters Greet Bush in San Salvador; Judge Opens Criminal Process Against Aleman
March 18, 2002 - IMF Mission in Nicaragua; Consumers Protest Electricity Hike; Elites and Popular Sectors Plan Different Receptions for Bush in Central America; Indigenous Peoples Challenge "Consumerist Man"
March 11, 2002 - PLC sweeps Atlantic Coast elections but Yatama-FSLN Alliance; Zoilamerica Narvaez presents her case at the Inter-American; Support expressed for evicted villagers on Ometepe
March 4, 2002 - Police Violently Remove Peasants on Ometepe; Army Lines up with the United States; Bolaños government to provide loans to small coffee farmers
February 25, 2002 - Dorothy Granada returns to Nicaragua; Central America Free Trade Agreement coming up; Accusations of "conspiracy" against elections on Atlantic
February 18, 2002 - General Carrion Denies Training at SOA; Environmental Experts Oppose Privatization of HydroElectric Plants; FSLN Update; Activists mourn Marsha Burnett
February 11, 2002 - Bluefields judge orders Peter Tsokos to stop selling coastal properties on internet; Christian base communities challenge religious leaders; US Resumes Military Aid to Nicaragua
February 4, 2002 - Dorothy Granada "Free to Return to Nicaragua; Ixchen Celebrates Thirteenth Anniversary; Davos Forum Protests Continue
January 28, 2002 - The FSLN regroups; Talking and Maneuvering in the National Assembly; World Economic Forum in NYC draws protests
January 21, 2002 - Aleman maneuvers to retain power bases; Bolaños government brings modest aid to big coffee farmers while virus strikes cattle; Teach-ins and demos planned for World Economic Forum
January 14, 2002 - Bolaños inaugurated President of Nicaragua; “Dry canal” protesters greet new National Assembly; Bush angers Senators by recess appointment of Otto Reich
January 7, 2002 - URGENT! Call White House to Stop the Confirmation of Otto Reich!; Nicaraguan Island Raffled Off; Network to Challenge School Costs
February 11, 2001 - Bluefields judge orders Peter Tsokos to stop selling coastal properties on internet; Christian base communities challenge religious leaders; US Resumes Military Aid to Nicaragua
January 29, 2001 - Lewites Begins to “Clean Up Managua”; Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Dorothy Granada; Daniel Ortega Wins Sandinista Primary
January 22, 2001 - Sandinista Herty Lewites Sworn in as Mayor of Managua; Dorothy Granada Vindicated by Government Commission; Sandinistas Vote in Primary Election
January 16, 2001 - Hopes May Be Dashed in Chentex Struggle; Human Rights Ombudsman Calls for End to Persecution of Dorothy Granada; Oil Fever is Back
January 8, 2001 - Important Victory Appears Near in Chentex Case; Dorothy Granada Saga Continues; Remains of Bishop Antonio Valdivieso Discovered in Old Leon
January 2, 2001 - Dorothy Granada Still in Hiding; Maquiladoras Violate Environmental Rights and Labor Rights; Coffee Farmers to Lose Shirts
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- Still no end in sight for energy crisis
- Still no end in sight for energy crisis
- Members of US Congress Interfere while Others Denounce Interference