94% Renewable Electricity By 2017 Is Goal For Nicaragua

94% Renewable Electricity By 2017 Is Goal For Nicaragua

CleanTechnica

Nicaragua has one of the most aggressive renewable energy goals in the world — it intends to have 94% of its electricity come from renewable energy by 2017. The spark for this new energy push was an energy crisis due to a heavy reliance on foreign oil.

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Dissidents protest Ortega-COSEP 'pacto'

Dissidents protest Ortega-COSEP 'pacto'

Nicaragua Dispatch

An anti-government group known as the Patriotic Movement for the Republic (MPR) is calling on Nicaraguan civil society to “lose its fear” and unite in an “organized and combative civil struggle” against what it calls the “dictatorial” alliance of power ...

Nicaragua: Organization installs solar and LED lighting in rural school without electricity

Nicaragua: Organization installs solar and LED lighting in rural school ... Inside Costa Rica Reach The Future, A San Francisco Bay Area organization that operates community outreach programs for green businesses, partnered with local nonprofit, Power To The People to bring solar power and energy efficient LED lighting to a school in the off ...

Nicaragua open to Canadian beef and pork

Nicaragua open to Canadian beef and pork

Farm Focus

As of Jan. 2, Canadian producers can export beef to Nicaragua, with full access has been restored to the market that closed in 2003 due to BSE. And, for the first time ever, market access conditions have now been established for Canadian pork. Access ...

Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega flirting with the market

Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega flirting with the market

VOXXI

In light of the passions stirred by Nicaragua's leftist revolution in 1978 and the subsequent U.S.-sponsored “contra” counter-revolution, it's striking how little attention is now paid to this tiny republic laid waste by the last proxy war between the ...

Hezbollah rumors continue to hound Nicaragua

Hezbollah rumors continue to hound Nicaragua - Tico Times:

Tico Times

Hezbollah rumors continue to hound Nicaragua Tico Times MANAGUA, Nicaragua – For a story that appears to be based more on fear than fact, the rumors of Hezbollah activity in Nicaragua will not go away. Former presidential candidate and radio producer Fabio Gadea last weekend criticized the administration of ...

Artisanal chocolate hits sweet spot at its Mesoamerican roots in Nicaragua

Artisanal chocolate hits sweet spot at its Mesoamerican roots in Nicaragua - McClatchy Washington Bureau:

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Artisanal chocolate hits sweet spot at its Mesoamerican roots in Nicaragua McClatchy Washington Bureau MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The first time Carlos Mann mixed a batch of his own chocolate, he knew he was loco over cocoa. Thus was born Momotombo Chocolate, an artisanal chocolate house with a twist: It makes high-end chocolate in the Mesoamerican ... and more »

IDB gives US$56.2 million to improve health care in Nicaragua

IDB gives US$56.2 million to improve health care in Nicaragua - Infosurhoy:

Hispanically Speaking News

IDB gives US$56.2 million to improve health care in Nicaragua Infosurhoy WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A. – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved $56.2 million in financing to improve health care for about 2.3 million living in at-risk areas in Nicaragua. The money will finance the construction and renovation of 80 ... Nicaragua Building 80 Health Care Centers in Most Remote Areas of Country Hispanically Speaking News all 2 news articles »

Nicaraguan music promoter Henry Farinas guilty of money laundering

BBC News

Nicaraguan music promoter Henry Farinas guilty of money laundering BBC News A judge in Nicaragua has found music promoter Henry Farinas and 21 other people guilty of money laundering, organised crime and drug trafficking. They had links with gangs trafficking cocaine in Central America, prosecutors said. The authorities ...  Read more Nicaragua Conviction for Figure in Singer's Death ABC News all 99 news articles »

Schroon Lake students assist Nicaraguan poor

DenPubs - Schroon Lake students assist Nicaraguan poor. Mission of Hope trip proves rewarding. Schroon Lake residents, from left, Clare Whitney, Mitchell Beers and Nicole Beers took part in a Mission of Hope to Chiquilistagua, Nicaragua, this summer. By Fred ... Read more

Nicaragua to try 18 fake Mexican journalists for allegedly smuggling $9 million in cash

CBS News

Nicaragua to try 18 fake Mexican journalists for allegedly smuggling $9 million in cash ... Washington Post MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Eighteen Mexican citizens must stand trial on charges they tried to smuggle about $9.2 million in cash through Nicaragua by posing as members of a Mexican television news crew, a judge ruled Tuesday. Judge Julio Cesar Arias ... Accused 'narco journalists' go on trial Dec. 3Nicaragua Dispatch all 103 news articles »

In #Nicaragua, hopes of a new canal revive a ghost town and spawn dreams

In Nicaragua, hopes of a new canal revive a ghost town and spawn dreams

Kansas City Star

Shimmering mirage-like is an even greater yearning: Nicaragua again talks of building an inter-oceanic waterway to compete with the Panama Canal, with one terminus here. The waterway would allow ships to transit from the Atlantic up the San Juan River ...

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Foss High graduate Jason Puracal plans book about time in #Nicaragua jail

The Seattle Times

Foss High graduate Jason Puracal plans book about time in Nicaragua jail TheNewsTribune.com Puracal lived in Nicaragua for 10 years, worked as a Realtor in the coastal town of San Juan del Sur, married a local woman, Scartleth, and had a son, Jabu, now 5, before being arrested in November 2010, in a multidefendant drug-trafficking case ... American freed from Nicaraguan prison: 'It's a fight for your life' CNN Correction: Jason Puracal-Nicaragua story Wall Street Journal Freed US man: Nicaraguan prison was 'horrific' NBCNews.com all 323 news articles »

Reflections on #Nicaragua, baseball and love

Nicaragua Dispatch

Reflections on Nicaragua, baseball and love Nicaragua Dispatch It's funny, but one of my fondest memories of the entire 2007 season was from Spring Training, when I went to Florida with my dad and got to interview Nicaragua's Devern Hansack, who was trying out for a pitching job on the Red Sox. I spent a beautiful ...

Nicaraguan lawmakers approve construction of refinery, pipeline -#Nicaragua

Fox News - Nicaragua's legislature has approved a bill authorizing construction of an oil refinery, an inter-oceanic pipeline and other facilities, a $6.6 billion project to be partially funded by close ally Venezuela. According to the bill, approved Thursday by ... and more »

Freed American recalls #Nicaragua prison ordeal

KOMO News

Freed American recalls Nicaragua prison ordeal Chicago Tribune SEATTLE, Washington (Reuters) - An American recently freed from a Nicaragua jail after being wrongfully convicted of drug trafficking said on Friday he plans to put his ordeal in prison behind him and go to graduate school. Jason Puracal, 35, said he ... Jason Puracal: Indescribable To Be Reunited With Family KUOW NPR Nightmare is over for released US man Tico Times Puracal makes public appearance at alma mater UW KING5.com all 14 news articles »

Nicaragua ex-Contra leader Adolfo Calero dies aged 81

BBC News - In the 1980s Mr Calero led the largest faction fighting Nicaragua's left-wing Sandinista government. He was responsible for managing the US-backed rebels' finances and buying weapons. In 1987 he testified before the US Congress about the Iran-Contra ...  Read more

Contra Leader Calero Dies at 81 NewsMax.com

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Clashes in Nicaragua

Reuters - Dozens of former soldiers clash with police over social benefits. Read more

Nicaragua judge charged with providing members of the criminal outfit with false identification cards

Nicaragua Police Bust Crime Network Linked to Argentine Folk Singer's Death - Inside Costa Rica - Nicaraguan police say they have broken up a criminal network linked to Alejandro Jimenez Gonzalez, the man accused of plotting the attack that killed Argentine singer Facundo Cabral in Guatemala last year. The suspects include Judge Julio Cesar Ozuna, who has been charged with providing members of the criminal outfit with false identification cards. Karla Fariñas, sister of Nicaraguan Henry Fariñas -- the target of the attack that killed Cabral -- was also arrested. Read more

9 die in Nicaraguan flooding

The Voice of Russia  - Heavy rains that struck Nicaragua, have killed nine people. All the victims are farmers who drowned when a river overflowed its banks. Another 5200 people in the country have been affected by the flooding. Rains have not stopped in Nicaragua for two ...  Read more