We, like most sites about Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras and such, have our share of stoies related to people illegally immigrating to the US. Most have little to do with more than legal games. If you want to hear a bit more about a real example, there is a good article in Forbes t titled Girl Refugees: From the hands of smugglers to community leaders. There are two women's stories told, one being from Nicaragua.

From the article

What edible plants and herbs do you think would do ok in my garden during the rainy season? I'm in the interior of Carazo where it rains buckets, and have a small backyard in which only half of the soil gets much sun, so need suggestions for plants that would be shade-tolerant as well as the regulars such as tomatoes and chiltomas. Do quequisque and malanga need a lot of sun?

I should add that the local viveros have not been much help. Their main suggestions are rice and beans.

Hi,

When we first moved here, early Dec of last year, we found a ton of ticks on our dog each day. Then the problem went away. Well yesterday, after he was outside for 30min, we found another 10 ticks on him. So we are trying to figure out where the ticks are living? Do they live in the dry grass, or the dirt, or could they be in our house, or on the beach?

We live on a hill about 400 ft high about 10min outside of SJDS. He has been on frontline for most of his life, and has a a tick/flea collar too. We also have the tick/flea shampoo.

My name is David Hille. I am an ornithologist from the U.S. and am working in collaboration with Liliana Chavarría, owner of Reserva El Jaguar near Jinotega. We are conducting bird surveys around the country and wish to conduct multiple pelagic bird surveys in order to record the species of birds occurring in Nicaraguan waters. There is very little data collected on pelagic birds that occur in Nicaraguan waters.

I'm not entirely sure if this is the best place to post this, so I'm open to suggestions. I'm moving across town (Granada) for the third time in three years. Every time, I find myself with stuff I no longer need and in need of different stuff (for instance, moving from a rented, fully-furnished house to a rented house with absolutely nothing but the walls). I cannot find anything online that is dedicated to the buying and selling of vehicles, furniture and other household items by foreigners living in Nicaragua (not interested in the local sites).

Some interesting methods have evolved in Asia to grow pitaya (Hylocereus species) which are marketed in Asia and the US as `dragon fruit`. Has anyone seen a commercial pitaya farm in Nic?

http://www.vivapitaya.com/dragon-2.htm

There is a free, one hour presentation about this available on the Learning Spanish Like Crazy website. I am actually listening to it right now. It is pretty interesting.

That is, what businesses should be run by the government (or in some not for profit way) vs. what should be available for profit. The thread http://www.nicaliving.com/node/20172 started out about a specific nationalization that recently took place in Bolivia. It continues to be an interesting topic but, to move the concepts back to Nicaragua, I have created this thread.

http://onlyagame.wbur.org/2012/05/12/nicaragua-baseball-camp