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The Minister of the Interior, Ana Isabel Morales, confirmed the capture of an American fugitive.

Lawrence Scott Groeser, who identified himself as Jaime Todd in Nicaragua and who posed as the son of a Nicaraguan mother.

According to the Minister of the Interior, were able to identify the subject when he was trying to negotiate a Nicaraguan passport from Immigration. After his capture, was referred to the Directorate of Legal Aid.

He will be deported to the United States in the early hours of tomorrow.

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Inspired by Juano's question in my previous blog post, I decided to do a separate post about choices of where to move to in Latin America. This is far from complete and is just my opinion but I decided to toss it out. Note that order is not significant.

Nicaragua -- Clearly, I see this as a good option and I think that is pretty well covered here. :-)

Lola spotted little Rosario with her grandmother and aunt about a block from my new house and insisted that we needed to go up to them and jump all around. I told them I was in a new house and asked them if they'd like to see it.

The idea of going from New York to San Francisco via Nicaragua doesn't sound logical, even though you could do it (and still can) by only spending 12 miles, or 20 kilometers of that journey out of a boat and on land!

The soap opera is documented in http://www.nicaliving.com/node/21137 and it really has been a soap opera. Is it all over, probably not but a lot of important things happened. What remains is:

• How this trial plugs into the other judge saying it couldn't happen.
• Reparations to the victims -- I believe the court date for that is 13 May.
• Reading the final verdict with all the details -- 17 May at 1500.

We hear a lot on this site about lawyers, here is a good story from END today.

The lawyer and notary public Fabiola Ninoska Ibarra Gonzalez admitted in a public trial to committing the offense of aggravated theft (aggravated by her position of trust) and is awaiting the verdict of the sentencing judge.

Prosecutors had accused Ibarra of taking U.S. $ 6,500 out of a total of $ 16,500 for the sale of a plot of land located in the municipality of La Trinidad.

The windows slats are fixed and the fake stone tile on the front of the house has been repaired, along with some plaster in the kitchen along the doorway. I suggested that the work guy run the floor tile up the side of the doorway since we don't have more of that strange lime green paint. (I also need to see if the paint is washable since the owner's dogs dried off on the walls and left that tell-tale stain at dog shoulder height.)

She wanted me to buy cuajada and gave me 35 cordobas. I thought it was for her and went across the street to the house that sells various dairy and coffee and found I had to add two cordobas more to get a pound of it. Shrug, I give her more than that in spare change each week.

No, the cuajada appears to be for me. Or I'm the custodian until I can figure out how to feed it back to her slowly. I was telling her (in Spanish) that I don't eat cuajada. She kept saying it was for me.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22371275

Speaking at a rally in La Paz, the president said there was "no lack of US institutions which continue to conspire against our people and especially the national government, which is why we're going to take the opportunity to announce on this May Day that we've decided to expel USAID".

He then turned to his Foreign Minister, David Choquehuanca, and asked him to inform the US embassy of his decision.

OK, now that I have fyls attention!!

I had some of the famous Quinoa in a trendy place in BC last summer. It was nice but so was the broccoli etc that was in the salad as well.

Today, while drinking my Cebada and thinking it wasn't that healthy, I looked down at a grain of cebada (pearl barley) and thought of Quinoa.

So I looked up cebada - Pearl Barley on a Nutritional Values of Grains & Flours site at http://www.immuneweb.org/lowcarb/food/grains.html and found that it was not as bad for me as I thought. In fact compared to the over priced and trendy Quinoa, it was very good.

I've now been here a bit over two weeks and found the warts in the new house as well as the pleasures. Just yesterday, the work guy finally fixed the kitchen sink drainage problem. Most everything left to be fixed is more or less cosmetic, and some of the things I can fix myself if I must.

HISTORY

Date: April 19th 1990 Event: The nine year Nicaraguan civil war (1981-1990) officially ended.

Date: April 25th 1990 Event: Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was inaugurated as President of Nicaragua for a six year term.

The national campaign has been going on for awhile to "Live clean, Live healthy, live pretty, and live well" but I have seen no changes in the amount of trash or how the people act to each other. It is normal to see trash flying from the buses when they pass. I thought it was amusing and drew this.

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health is a book a friend recommened. I was skeptical but decided to get it/read it. I'm impressed with what I read.

Marcos Zamorro, who did the notary work for my cedula, drew up the lease, which has the usual stuff in it that I'd expect for a lease anywhere -- don't bring horses inside, don't build fires in the courtyard on the ground.