Dale Kowach (false name Dagger) and Denis Prado are indicted on multiple land trafficking chargers, did anybody notice this

Mr Berger,Nicareal,

It is interesting that with Dale and Denis who I believe you have known personally for years you can draw no opinion, but people you have never met you are perfectly capable of forming such.

Look, everyone on this list; this is the key point, Las Salinas is a community of men, women and children. La Flor has always respected the community. As noted here earlier we have spent tens of thousands of dollars already on community development projects in Las Salinas. We can find no evidence that Dale or Denis have spent dollar one.

We respect and cherish community. But in three years of illegal land invasions by the local land trafficking mafia, we have asked repeatedly to see the National Assembly certification that would show Las Salinas to be a legitmate indigenous community. It has never been produced. It does not exist in our opinion, because Las Salinas does not qualify.

Read the law. It is clear; if you study the 1914 and 1918 Indigenous Laws it is obvious that they are not indigenous under those statutes.

Either way it does not matter to us; what matters are the children and the elderly, and the jobs for their fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters we will create when the crooks are taken down and we can go forward with a sustainably focused, community involved development.

The ejidos of the community, which is a common document in Nicaragua which determines the lands of the community is in this case incredibly specific as to the linderos and mejones of the community lands. Ejidos have been provided routinely to rural communities in Nicaragua whether indigenous or not. Ejidos determine communal land to be used for forestry and agriculture; technically this land cannot be leased or sold outside the community. But the practice of ejidos leases has evolved as shady characters have separated the locals usually for penny's on the dollar in terms of the resale price to foreign nationals from their historical lands.

La Flor would never be involved in these types of transactions. Our land has never been a part of the ejidos, at least dating back to the 1870's according to the community document.

There is no conflict between La Flor's land and the ejidos.

Everything else is just extortion; where vile men are using women and children as human shields.

Now Mr Berger, La Flor believes that ethics in business practices and rule of law are required for a sovereign nation to prosper. Do you?

For example, pilfering a man's client list after his death we would consider unethical and predatory. How would you categorize that issue. Shall we go on.........

La Flor believes in community, La Flor supports community, La Flor loves the children and will do whatever we can to help them. And today, the most powerful thing we can do is to take down the land mafia who runs the community directiva for their sole personal financial benefit.

They have sold innumerable leases, some within the linderos of the ejidos and some clearly outside the bounds and thus unquestionably illegal. But where is all the money, where are the improvements in infrastructure, healthcare services or school improvements. The money went into the pockets of the land traffickers.

How can the directiva justify that they are legimately meeting their fiduciary responsiblities to their people when they sell a lease (illegal) to Dale and Denis for $400 which Dale and Denis now market for over $1,200,000 (and would have already sold if not for our efforts).

There are sadly many men and a few women who have been happy to take advantage of the weak legal system in Nicaragua. And they are most definitely unhappy with the progression to more professional standards of conduct; ethics in business and a faith in rule of law undermine their opportunity to acquire land at below fair market prices. So if men like Dale Kowach(Dagger) and Denis Prado find it exceedingly more difficult to play this shady game because of our and others effort, well too bad.

At the end of the day, Nicaragua benefits, the country will achieve a higher standard of tourism based industries with developers who believe in rule of law, the people will benefit in the form of higher wages and tourism projects that are are truly engaged in community development.

Dale and Denis take and give nothing back.

Mr Berger, are you a taker or a giver?

The charges are for cutting down a fence and hindering work

I have not been on the property in a year

I was not there that day

Justice will be served in court not on a blog

I am a simple surfer

The Indigenous Community does not take direction from me

Mr Berger

La Flor already has a blog site under-construction for this very purpose, but in the meantime members of La Flor will be in SJDS several times in the next few days and will be happy to meet with you personally to share all the docs.

Interested?

DB

To Kelly Ann, would love to meet you, you sound like a good person. Your description of positive Nica/Gringo activities is precisely what La Flor believes is the future. Love to meet Mr Berger as well.

DB

Dale, as usual you have your facts wrong or you are dissembling and/or disingenuous.

Let's address these issues.

1.La Flor purchased a fee simple title or escritura from the Balladares family of Managua, who had purchased the title from the Francisco Castillo family from Las Salinas who after two generations of farming the property applied for legally and recieved a tilte in 1946. The community ejidos with references to the 1870's specifically excludes this land from ever having been community land. The mejones and linderos are extraordinarily accurate in their definition in the community's document. You are correct until you and Denis prompted the creation of illegal leases in the area there was never any disputes. As with all previous posts La Flor stands ready to share any and all documents with any interested party.

2. La Flor has surveyed the parcel three times including once with INETER to determine exactly where the median high tide exists so as to be sure and never impose on the nationally public beach. All three surveys follow exactly the linderos as defined in the escritura and as exist at the registro and catastro. The science of topography in the last 60 years has advanced dramaticallly as we now all beneifit from GPS and other technologies. The fact that the indentical linderos in 1946 calculated to 47 mzs and in 2005,6,7 as 55 mzs is simply a matter of science. The parcel we claim is exactly the same parcel as we purchased. The boundaries or linderos are identical to the Balladares' and the Castillo's.

3. On several occasions on your website you have marketed your illegal lease for $1,200,000. A lease which we believe you pay $400 per year. The last time you posted it, we contacted you and made you aware that as you were posting it thru a Salt Lake City based server you had now crossed into US jurisdiction and without any question could be subject to racketeering prosecution under the RICO laws. Only then you did you immediately remove it from your site. We, of course, maintain a record of this.

4.Your lease is actually for seven mazanas,we believe, and conflicts with three separate valid escrituras, La Flor de Mayo, the family Ayerdis (Nica) and the family de Tarde (Nica. All terreno never a part of the ejidos de comunidad)

5. La Flor de Mayo has never offered any members of the land trafficking cartel any money for any land. We did offer to the community to establish a foundation that would share profits from the tourism development. We did offer a guarantee of funding to the foundation of initially $250,000 over five years with far more to come over the longer time period. What we did not know at that time in 2005 was that the leadership of the local directiva were coopted by Dale and Denis and as such refused the offer because a foundation with funds managed for the benefit of the community of course would not allow the cartel members to take the pay off. We will still fund this foundation with profits and expect over time to be able to work with the honest(vast, vast majority) of the community to meet the goals and needs of the community as they see fit. Our offer was simple out of generosity; there was and is no legal reason for us to do it. Dale, as you have made untold amounts of money by buying land from Nicas for pennies and selling for dollars, have you ever given any back?

6. Dale's status as a rebel from justice was confirmed yesterday when he turned himself into the court. He now has a court hearing next week on May 2oth to explain to the judge why he failed to show up for the indictment hearings.

As always we thank all readers for their interest.

DB

"As to standing on the courthouse steps and standing for justice perhaps you should study the case before spewing or shall La Flor add you to the growing list of "indigenous gringos" that the US DOJ is considering opening a Racketeering case against in the US where rule of law does exists."

Who the F are you to be "adding" anybody to any list? Blow it out your ear and take your imperialistic, self-important, I know what's best for you more than you know what's best for yourself, elitist attitude back to Rancho Cucamonga, Palm Beach, Houston or from wherever there's a rock large enough for you, your man, your Flor and your absurd level of income and manifest destiny to be housed (tax free i am sure). Who are you to attach a dollar value to land where families have been living for 5000 years?

If you are foreign and living/plan to live in Nicaragua, you must come correct. That means respecting local figures like you respect your neighbor here in the States. That means respecting family and showing the locals you intend to come and share the beauty that is Nica, not take it and lease it back to them with a $1.50/day maid job. that means shutting up sometimes too.

Because you are the wife of some Modern day William Walker doesn't mean you went to law school in Nicaragua or are an expert in anything except being a wife.

You are sick of hearing people take down your man? The whole country is sick of the bananna republic manipulation that Whitey has instilled over the past 150 years in this trying to be peaceful country. stand in line lady, or ask the DOJ to push you to the front. i am sure that's how you perceive things get done.

I am responsible for my own actions as a landowner in Nica and for contributing to a poisonous reputation that I have a limited ability to influence. I plan to tread lightly with eyes open. i suggest you do the same.

La Flor has patiently been waging an ethical legal battle against these crooks for three years. I chose a new tack agaisnt my man's advice.

Tell me what is a miss. Tell me why Dale does not address specific issues but obfuscates and dodges facts and issues.

Papelles hablan en Nicaragua. Are you interested in the truth? Or as nearly all the counter-posts to me and La Flor just another shill of Dale and Denis.

Since you say you are not, please help me understand what is a miss about pursing rule of law based outcomes.

La Flor has a clean title, underwrittent by F.A.T.; it was never Somocista land, it was never taken by the Sandinistas, an unchallenged title for decades until Dale and Denis arrived to poison minds and steal the future prosperity.

Please expand on your comments that I am a miss.

Daffodil Beauty

I think everyone one this blog knows who laflordemayo is. At the top of their first post they id'ed themselves as La Flor de Mayo Nicaragua SA. They also said they would share with anyone who wants to look at all the documents so they might know the facts. Apparently, you, Mr Berger, are not interested in the facts.

For those who want to know who is daffodil beauty, I am Mr Christopher's wife and I started all this because I am so fed up with all the lies and threats made about and against my man.

He counseled me not to do it.

As to standing on the courthouse steps and standing for justice perhaps you should study the case before spewing or shall La Flor add you to the growing list of "indigenous gringos" that the US DOJ is considering opening a Racketeering case against in the US where rule of law does exists.

But in closing how can anyone in their right mind be for the community when they have acquired something from the community for $400 and are selling it for $1,200,000. Again who is ripping off the locals.

La Flor approached the community leaders in 2005 detailing a profit sharing formula to fund a community development foundation, now known as Fundacion Olas de Popoyo,. This foundation is ready for National Assembly approval as I write. In 2005, Bartolomew Castillo, president of the local directiva,(puppet of Dale and Denis) and all his counsel were offered a minimum of $250,000 over the next five years with a multiple of that to follow in the future. This incredibly generous offer was turned down because it would have been managed by a Board with fidicuary care and could not have been siphoned off into the pockets of the mafia leaders, Dale, Denis and others.

La Flor stands for the community, now and always.

Daffodil Beauty

so who do we (this blog forum) recommend for guidance in navigating the waters of purchasing nicaraguan property?

for one's personal home and/or rental (speculation?): -what are the checklists to a clear title (does this exist?) -lease land, etc...this works for many?...bit iffy for others?

namaste,

om db

we see all through our own lens' be the change you want to see in this world

Some on the blog have asked for a response directly from La Flor de Mayo Nic. SA. This is our first response, in time we will address many issues, - how to effectively combat judicial and police corruption when standing for rule of law; sub-standard, non-permitted construction and development debasing the potential future value of all properties in Nicarargua; gringo developers exacerbating cultural frictions between Nica and foreign nationals both by criminal activities but also from insensitivities to local custom; and a host of other issues holding Nicaragua back. But today we will mostly respond directly to Dale Kowach’s litany of ridiculous statements. We stand ready to provide copies of any and all legal documents to any interested party. Sorry for the lengthy response. Please read on……it will entertain, we promise…… and thank you for your interest.

Dale “Dagger” Kowach. What are you hiding from? Why didn’t you show up for either of the two hearings in Rivas in April to defend yourself from indictment? At the first hearing you stood outside the courthouse with Denis Prado in perfect health and sent your lawyer in to say you had a medical condition requiring your absence. That was, as with almost every utterance or act you make, a lie.

You should check again with your “lawyer”. You seem to misunderstand the difference between indictment and conviction. You were indicted in April on four charges related to land trafficking. You may be convicted on June 10th of these charges (minimum two years jail time). All daffodil beauty ever said was “did anyone see the article noting the indictments” and then you spewed caca de toro.

Tell your lawyer also to be on the lookout for another four to eight additional criminal indictments of multiple charges each related to the numerous land trafficking activities perpetuated by you and Denis and others against the legal owners of three separate escrituras on Bahia Punta Sardinia, not just La Flor.

These criminal cases, or in Nica parlance “penal” cases are brought against you by the state of Nicaragua, not La Flor. They are for activities directed against La Flor, but only can be brought by the Fiscal as representing the enforcement of rule of law in Nicaragua.

But thank you for clearing up for the court that you “own” a lease on the “contested” property. That portion of your blog will be used as additional evidencial admission at the June 10th trial. At the end of day, you and your partner Denis Prado have an ILLEGAL lease on private property. You have tried to sell it to unsuspecting gringos multiple times so don’t lecture La Flor about Nica/Gringo relations. Further, as to the subject of Nica/Gringo relations, you pay, we believe, according to your lease, $400/year to the community directiva for a parcel you are marketing for $1,200,000 in the US. So that begs the question as to who is ripping off the locals.

La Flor’s limited local payroll despite your criminal attacks is over $500/week and will rise shortly to over $5,000/week. La Flor has spent $20,000 on donations to various Tola entities including over $4,000 for the 2005 Surf Championship at Popoyo, $5000 for the 2007 Surf Championship at Popoyo and over $7,000 for the school in Las Salinas. As far as we can tell you have never given a penny to any legitimate organization in the community other than the dirty pockets of Bartolomew Castillo, presidente de Directiva. Additionally, La Flor has spent $50,000 on public works projects given as gifts to the community. The very road you use to bus in the invaders did not exist for eight months of each year until we raised it nearly two meters above the salt flats for almost a kilometer in length. La Flor gifted this infrastructure investment to the community; now this public road gives the entire community year-round access to the beach.

Now as to who or what is community, in 2006, Giovanny Loissigga used the number of 280 families for his $560,000 extortion request to La Flor. You say 550 families. It does not matter, 280 or 550. NONE are in the “contested area”. What matters is they are community, whether they meet the standards of the 1914 and 1918 Laws of Indigena does not matter to La Flor. They are community and are to be respected. (by the way, they have no Assemblia Nacional certification for indigenous status, they do not even get in the ballpark as far as the actual requirements of the 1914 and 1918 laws and have a bogus document from the previous alcalde. La Flor will provide in digital form the Legal Gazette that addresses those issues for anyone interested). But again whether they are or are not is irrelevant, as they are a community and deserve and receive La Flor’s respect.

Funny thing, Giovanni Loissigga, your local thug, has a cedula from 50 km north of Las Salinas, hardly indigenous. Your partner, Denis fled to New Orleans in the 1980’s as a Somacista and now routinely uses the Sandinista party name in false presentation. Is there anything you are involved in that is not a lie, deception, or manipulation?

And as a part of that respect of community, we, La Flor, respect first their ejidos, their lands. Ejidos, for those who do not know, are lands given to local communities whether indigenous or not for the use of agriculture and forestry. Technically, they cannot be leased out to others for anything else. The actual document that they wave around in court and to the press is a registered ejidos certification. It is dated from 1949 and references two court cases in 1872 and 1874. The linderos, mejones and total defined area of land are incredibly specific in this document. It is absolutely clear in this document that the land La Flor owns has never been a part of the ejidos land. Let me repeat, NEVER. Anyone on this blog who wants to review that document, we will be happy to provide it in digital format. Everyone in the village knows, and has known forever, this to be true.

Initially many families in the two villages of Las Salinas and Virgen Marena were duped and fell prey to the land mafias lies and deceptions, but as La Flor stood tall, refused to pay any extortion and repeatedly exposed the lies, one family after another abandoned the criminals. Today, perhaps 8 to 12 families remain hardcore supporters of the extortion. The rest of the village is tired, fed up and ready for jobs, but live in fear of physical reprisal.

La Flor has innumerable experiences with local villagers telling us about threats made against them if they support us. Our dozen or so local workers are heroes for standing up for what is right and bright about the future of Nicaragua. Here is a good tale, Dale. In Las Salinas/Virgen Marena, the tradition is for the Directiva to help a family with burial costs when a family member passes away. Recently, three of our employees from one family lost their grandfather, but your associate, presidente de Directiva, Bartolomew Castillo refused to help them. Of course, La Flor stepped in and covered the burial costs. Nice people you hang with, Dale.

You, Denis Prado, Bartollo Castillo and Giovanny Loiasiga are under criminal indictiment by Nicaragua, not La Flor de Mayo, for criminal activity related to land trafficking. You are the ringleaders of the Tola Mafia, the head of the deadly snake so to speak. With La Flor’s help, Nicaragua is going to chop that head off.

Oh, and thanks also for the YouTube video last summer (which you brag about in your blogs) showing machete wielding Nicas using women and children as human shields like only a cowardly terrorist would (or your partner Denis hiding behind them on the video). The video is being used as additional evidence by the state of Nicaragua as proof of your illegal activities. Interestingly, but it appears the video you recently posted on this site was altered from the original YouTube video you posted last summer. You tried to blur out the faces. No matter, La Flor has provided to the Corta Suprema the original. Your boy Prado is in it there clearly giving instructions to his Judge. Thanks again for the iron-clad evidence against yourself and your partners. And by the way, Dale, your video links in the blogs you submitted to NicaLiving have been removed. And removed from YouTube. Why? Did you finally figure it out that they were damning evidence? No problem. The courts have had it for almost a year.

On July 27th, 2007, your boy Prado convinced a Tola judge to use an irrelevant document to attempt to claim a corner of La Flor property. Juez Fonseca, the Tola judge is in deep hot water with the Corta Suprema for this. She has been required by the higher court in Rivas and the Corta Suprema in Managua to return to the property and set things right. In April 2008, when Jueza Fonseca attempted to return to the property and undo her illegal action of July 2007 she was confronted by 200 people bussed in from all over Tola ( La Flor will be happy to provide to anyone the court certified admission testimony of the local minister who was duped into using his church’s bus to bring the women and children human shields from all over Tola to invade. His US based church is now, at least, facing a DOJ inquiry into RICO and Patriot Act violations. We are not pushing this at this time as we think the church just made a mistake).

These innocent, but paid, human shields are not locals in the community. Again, maybe 8 to 12 families remain loyal to you, Denis and Giovanny. All but about 20 of the 200 people participating in the illegal invasion that day in April were bussed in. Wake up and smell the surf break you toasted loser. The VAST majority of the locals support La Flor. 550 families my ass. There are but a handful of “Giovanistas” who are local who are still in it only for the extortion, everyone else is bussed in from as far away as Managua.

Just in case your business partner Prado, who WAS present at this illegal invasion last July 2007 (he is in the video), failed to inform you, La Flor confronted the judge at the fence, exposed her for the fraud she was (she had an irrelevant document that wasn’t even an original and another document with a FORGED signature of the higher court judge and the police captain she dragged out there refused to present an oficio that would be required for him to bring a police force onto our property. Why? Because he did not have one). Yes, the police detained (not arrested, get your facts straight) several La Flor guards and took them to the Rivas police station to determine if any of them had fired a weapon (inconclusive) then released them back to La Flor custody that day.

The only person to serve jail time as a result of this incident was your local mafia leader Giovanny Loassiga who illegally took the original irrelevant document from the court and refused to return it. This is, of course, a strategy you employ to delay our efforts to enforce the rule of law. Loassiga did 5 days for his transgression and was released after Bartollo, not Giovanny, returned the stolen document. Oh, I almost forgot, after the arrest warrant was issued for Giovanny and the police went to his mother’s house in Las Salinas to simply ask that he return the document that he illegally removed from the court, he responded by firing three shots through the front door at the police and fled out the back and was a fugitive for a week or so until he was nailed on the street in Rivas by the police he had shot at. You didn’t read that in LP either, did you?

The linderos of La Flor in no way conflict with the community ejidos. They have never conflicted and thus never will. In other words, the modus operandi of Dale and Denis is clearly exposed. Go look at their website, Nicaland, and you will see 90% of how they operate if you can read between the lines. What you do not see on the website is that Denis Prado, Giovanny Loassiga, and Dale Kowach are really good at identifying properties with potential weaknesses as documented in the Registro and Catastro. When necessary, as in the case of La Flor, where the title is solid and unassailable, they create a FALSE document encumbering part of the targeted property and try to get it registered. In the meantime, they try to stir up support in the village by waving a false document around in their “meetings” showing that a legitimate property owner is trying to take “their” land. As well, Dale then funnels unsuspecting buyers to Denis and tries to sell these illegal leases.

Dale, you are caught up in this because you are business partners with Denis Prado and you refuse to get off La Flor property. Denis is funding invaders and squatters on property that does not belong to him. And don’t act like this is an isolated case. When La Flor testified to the Truth Commission (Assemblia Nacional) last July 2007, Denis was subsequently issued a subpoena to testify, not only was his and your name attached to land trafficking problems in Las Salinas but virtually every case in the department of Rivas the Truth Commission was investigating had his name associated with the criminal side of the ledger.

You assert that Mr. Christopher is spreading lies, but when your business partner, Denis Prado and your mafia associate, Giovanny Loissigga brought civil charges of slander and defamation against Mr. Christopher in Rivas court, these cases were immediately thrown out of court for lacking any credible standing. The same will probably not be the case as the slander and defamation suits under preparation by La Flor move forward against you, Denis and Giovanny.

As of last year you and Denis are named in Operation Capistrano, case # (La Flor has this #, but will let you chase it for yourself for now), a money laundering case opened by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (in nomenclature known as ICE). It clearly identifies your middle-man in San Diego, Ian Gleason, who made consecutive deposits in local banks near, but below $10,000 on consecutive days (really smart guys, really smart), then used the money for down payments on several San Diego properties. His activities were curtailed however, when one of the banks, while doing a background for a mortgage, did a check on a tax return and found it to be fraudulent. Do a Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) and deal with it. While redacted from our FOIA request, the US Treasury, FBI, Immigration and Customs have your Bancentro bank account number here and the bank account numbers in San Diego. They have more, but we will leave this issue for now. Go find out for yourself.

FYI, it was paintballs shot at invaders trespassing on La Flor property, not rubber bullets. These paintballs were shot at a group of fifty or more invaders wielding machetes and clubs who were nearly upon Mr. Christopher’s position. He was merely defending himself with paint balls, a mere teenage boy’s toy, from physical assault by a trespassing mob that you and your partner Denis Prado paid to make this attack

And the dog is not a trained attack dog, it was rescued from almost certain death in Managua by Mr Christopher, nursed to health by La Flor’s Finca Popoyo workers with numerous vet bills paid by La Flor and like most dogs, can smell bad intent. So let’s give the dog some credit for being a smart dog. Dale, why don’t you bring your p.o.s. dog for a visit? Step on La Flor property, Dale, and try to pet our dog, if your heart is pure you will have no problems.

Yes, we have heavily armed guards on our property and have had such for three years. So far, we have shown extreme restraint. Our guards have never physically struck one person who was trespassing even though you and your mafia associates continue to put women and children in the center of a potential crossfire of your armed thugs (yes, your boys that you bus in bring pistols), the police with AK-47’s and our 12-guage “00” buckshot. Recently, the police removed from one of your thugs (not a local villager) an illegal .45 caliber pistol. All of our guards are fully vetted and have passed every requirement to be certified by the Policia Nacional as a security guard. That cannot be said for the gang-bangers you bring by bus to invade, physically threaten and destroy property on our land.

Thus in summary, the escritura of the parcel we call Finca Popoyo was never apart of the community ejidos and until you and Denis showed up was never challenged. Repeat never, not even during the 1980’s. The “Ejidos de Comunidad” are extraordinarily specific. There is no land conflict, there is a land extortion. You have invaded our property repeatedly. You have sent armed thugs to destroy our property. In the most cowardly and despicable fashion, you use women and children as human shields. You bastardize the power of indigena by misusing and abusing the concept as part of your deception and manipulation. You hide from court-mandated appearances. You have encouraged judges to make illegal documents and forged signatures. You have stolen original court documents. And your illegal ministrations are costing the villages of Las Salinas, Virgen Marena and El Limon at minimum 100 jobs today, maybe more. You are under investigation by the United States government for money laundering and are now under the scope by Immigration and DGI here (I will save those details for later, Dale, but you should learn to spell D-E-P-O-R-T-A-T-I-O-N). By the way, Dale, banks in Panama are under increasing global pressure to reveal accounts that may have been funded with tax-evaded deposits.

You are the destroyer of the community. You offer them no help to develop their needs, but take from them (if it was not actually already an illegal lease) a parcel of property for $400 in annual fee that you are selling for $1.2 million. You are an abortion of a man. Dale Dagger, you are the quintessential “ugly American”. You and Denis have made a bad name for development in Nicaragua. Put that in your “Yoga Lot” and smoke it.

By the way, Yoga is an activity designed to promote individual serenity and community awareness through a man’s physical and intellectual well-being. Dale, when you attain self-awareness and desire to share your enlightened being with all humanity you will be welcomed to Finca Popoyo.

Namastey!

PS. Both Warren Zevon and Jimi Hendrix are really bummed that you would use their artistic work in any way. But their spirits will persevere as will La Flor de Mayo.

PPS. Readers, if you made it to the end of this blog, thanks for your interest in a most sad and tragic tale, but the future is bright and the righteous will fight to see that light. More to be revealed……………….

Dale Dagger has sold me two lots since 2003 with no residual issues or problems. What struck me about Dale was his desire to teach a trade, boat building, to the Nicas who worked for him. Don't just give them a surfboard, show them a way to make a living. Dale's been representing locals against several incursions by multi-national land suckers who want nothing but to mass develop the South coast and shuttle earnings back home to the the European States of America.

Get yer facts straight before you hide behind your keyboard and slander.

I have known Dale for a few years and have bought land in Gigante from him and his partner Dennis. In my dealings with them they have both been honest and up front with me. All the title paper from my property is clean and I have no problem referring friends who want to purchase land in Nica to Dale and Dennis.

Tim

I have not kept up on this on going saga however I have noticed over the last several weeks the indigenous community protesting at the Rivas court house the Flor de Mayo purchase which has all the indications of being an illegal purchase in the first place. My understanding is that this issue could have been resolved long ago by paying off the indigenous community. I mentioned this to one of the principles of Flor de Mayo only to be reprimanded and threatened by the individual consequently. It seems Dale is only trying to stand up for the rights of the indigenous community and my understanding is that the water front lands are supposed to be land leases and not outright fee simple purchases. I have recently done business with Dale and have no problems with his mode of doing business and he certainly is not under indightment that I am aware of.

To my knowledge ( and I just talked to my lawyer) I am not a fugitive in Nicaragua. I am also not indicted for land frauds. I am accused of chopping down a fence on June 29th of last year. I was in my surf-lodge in Gigante that day. My Nicaraguan partner Dennis Prado is also accused. He was in New Orleans. This is harassing fire by the development group Flor de Mayo and Philip Christopher. They are fighting with 550 families who live in Las Salinas over 8 manzanas of beach land. I own a lease on a small portion of the contested land and have supported the Community of Nahualapa. This makes me an enemy of Flor de Mayo and they have done all they can to discredit me. My partner and I have been under attack for years. This is just the beginning but the laws of Karma always apply, it just might take awhile.

Philip Christopher was already found guilty in a Rivas court and ordered to pay damages to the Indigenous community of Nahualapa. He, not I, is a convicted criminal.

This six minute video will give you a glimpse of the community, the local police, and a local judge. Yes, that is a trained attack dog used against the Indigenous community members. Yes, the judge gives the property to the community members. Flor de Mayo vs everybody