Nicaragua Network

1. Colombia rejects Ortega’s proposal, sends more vessels to San Andres
2. Protests grow over rise in gasoline prices
3. Teacher workshops begin; new family report card released
4. IMF agreement likely this year
5. Housing fair opens with goal of building 40,000 houses
6. Women demandequality in the workforce
7. 2012-13 harvest cycle good for production, bad for prices
8. Rejuvenating Nicaragua's coffee farms to wait until 2014
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1. Granada holds International Poetry Festival
2. Opposition divided over high level officials
3. National Assembly approves “Family Cabinets”
4. Nicaragua inaugurates C.A.'s largest solar power project
5. La Chureca dump transformation complete
6. Atlantic Coast briefs: Lobster diving extended; protest over Bosawas continues
7. Hearing held for Chontales miners protesting B2Gold
8. Hondurans use free Nicaraguan heath system
9. Nicaragua's Free Trade Zones grow
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1. Energy distribution sold to another Spanish company
2. Colombia to increase naval presence near Nicaraguan waters
3. Road paving advances throughout the country
4. Senior Citizens march for pensions
5. Prison reform and at-risk youth training
6. “Vivir Bonito” campaign gaining support
7. Selling turtle meat prohibited in RAAS
8. Nicaragua to fight for “rosquillas” trademark
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1. Murillo launches “Live Beautifully, Live Well” Campaign
2. Talks underway in Assembly to fill high-level posts
3. Indigenous clash with colonizers over Bosawas Reserve
4. Nicaraguan cooperatives grow in strength and numbers
5. Russia steps in to replace US aid cuts
6. Adoption rules to be strengthened, streamlined
7. Record number of turtle nestings at Chacocente
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1. New school year to start next week
2. Unions present proposal on social security to Assembly
3. FAO praises Nicaragua for poverty reduction, food security
4. CID-Gallup poll shows support for government
5. Assembly passes law to benefit former combatants
6. More property claims resolved; US urged to issue waiver
7. Final funding obtained for Tumarin hydroelectric project
8. Sucre to be launched from Nicaragua
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1. Roya hits Central America hard
2. Ortega attends CELAC summit in Chile
3. Costa Rican road causing serious environmental damage
4. Energy from wind power to increase
5. Nicaragua to offer land mine removal training
6. USAID program creates jobs and technology training
7. Nicaragua joins international outrage at fake Chavez photo
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1. New mayors begin work
2. Prisoners in TELEVISA case sentenced to 30 years
3. Divers want postponement of ban on lobster and shellfish diving
4. Fenosa selling electricity distribution to other Spanish companies
5. Army arresting biosphere land traffickers
6. Students take university entrance exam
7. Program to help integrate blind people into society
8. Legendary musician Silvio Linarte dies
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1. Assembly to elect high level officials; new mayors sworn in
2. Private sector and dissident Sandinistas at each others’ throats again
3. New poll shows support for government
4. Ortega travels to Caracas to support Chavez
5. Twenty percent of births not registered
6. Nine out of 10 students completed the school year
7. Road improvements set for 2013
8. New sirens to strengthen early alert system
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1. Experts say losses from coffee fungus could reach US$50-100 million
2. Managua auxiliary bishop’s accusations stir up storm
3. Eighty women murdered in 2012
4. Social Security reform discussion begins
5. Nicaragua on target to achieve Millennium Development Goals in health
6. Caribbean fishing industry looks to grow 8%
7. Experts call for driver education
8. Nicaragua produced world’s best cigar in 2012
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[Note: This is a double issue, covering news from Dec. 19 through Dec. 31.]

1. Nicaraguans celebrate Christmas and the New Year
2. San Cristobal Volcano erupts again
3. FTZ workers to get 8% raise
4. 60,000 homes electrified since 2007; 50% renewable energy achieved
5. 8,000 affordable housing units built in 2012
6. Family remittances on the upswing
7. False TELEVISA journalists declared guilty
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