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Shown yesterday on CBS’s Sunday Morning, the technology is impressive.

All groups have agreed except the CNT (Coordinadora Nacional del Transporte) who have denounced Ortega's use of Army troops for social unrest within the country as unconstitutional. The settlement covers those who transport people. So what did the transportistas win, or we might as well say, what will it cost Nicaragua?

Today's El Nuevo Diario states that Nicaragua has exported more than 3,000 tons of beans to Venezuela since the end of 2007, meanwhile the UN's FAO and NGOs warn of the risk of hunger & malnutrition for more than 1.5 million Nicaraguans.

In our neighborhood in León we were 6 hours without electricity yesterday, today 4, but it’s during the day, so it’s not a hardship so far, and at a time when the businesses downtown need it.

USA is an abbreviation. We all know what it stands for, though for some it helps to spell it out, United States of America. Its citizens are Americans. Sure it's located in the hemisphere known as the Americas (grazie Signor Vespucci). But who else has America in the name of their country?

Call me dense cause I don’t understand the connection between fireworks and special church holidays in Nicaragua (& Latin America, for that matter). In León our neighborhood church, San Felipe, lobs mortar bombs over our apartment at 5 AM on these holy days. Wouldn’t the peel of bells be sufficient?

Time is life. It’s heartbeats, it’s when people fall in love, when babies are born, when a family member dies. Discussing politics with friends is time well spent (The word is wrong here; it shows my cultural bias.) Better said, discussing politics is time well lived.

In Nicaragua, and during my travels back & forth, I always make a point of asking people I meet where they were born. It surprised me, at first, to learn that the great majority were born right there where we talked, in that town. I just met an engineer who travels the world working on his company’s gas turbine generators. His name & that of his company don’t matter here.

A developing technology. Since solar energy 'raining' on Nicaragua amounts to 1 kW per square meter this may prove important in its future.

From Boston Globe / March 24, 2008:

Hey fisken & family, Doug, dirt bag, and others, first let me say, enjoy your trip!