Another nice video from the folks at ProNicaragua, approximately 8 minutes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21899227

gotten cheaper ??

I paid $8.89 instead of the $11.99 I paid some months ago for an almost identical amount transferred.

If this is the case, WU is getting competitive with an ATM pull for those who don't have a Nicaraguan bank account in place.

The word 'pascuas' carries the Old Testament sense of Passover, making the sacrifice of Christ's life a deliverance from a 'modern' sense of bondage, whereas the anglicized name 'Easter' is for the bunnies, IMO. (Druids, besides oaks, worshipped rabbits, I learned someplace or other.) It happens the first Sunday after Spring begins ('equinox' is near meaningless here in the tropics) in a new lunar month (begun with the full moon).

Hi,

Thanks to the generosity of a friend who loves dogs, I have a ride into Managua next week to get her too long hair cut and groomed. While she is getting the spa treatment, I will be looking for a good computer shop to buy (hopefully) a wireless printer, and possibly even a CD/DVD accessory for my Mac Air book, which lacks a reader. It also has only 1 usb port, which is why I am looking for a wireless printer. (Or, I'd be interested in a second hand model if anyone out there has a usable one for sale.)

This two words caught my attention reading in a reply to Key WestPirate's post Some Excellent Insights. What happens in Nicaragua, could also be the case on many other nations that have almost the same historical and social issues that we have. Societal Trust. As long as there will be poor, and I mean really poor people, leaders like Chavez, rip, and Ortega, they will have a Societal Trust. In this here land, the land of plenty for the few and the land of nothing for the many Societal Trust comes cheap.

Claro: Leading Nicaragua into the 21st Century with first-world prices and third-world technology.

The three magic words of Claro customer service: No, No and No!

At Claro, the matchless beauty of our customer service representatives is exceeded only by their bovine sloth.

Please be patient. E-mail service in your barrio will improve greatly next week when we take delivery of a new flock of carrier pigeons.

As you personal Claro customer service rep, I will be pleased to give your request top priority as soon as I learn how to add and subtract.

I am going back to the states in mid may for my wedding and i want to bring back a bunch of cigars for it. I dont know much about cigars so any recommendations on Where to go and What type of nica cigars to get would be greatly appreciated. I will probably buy about 40 decent cigars and 10 nicer ones for the groomsmen, my dad, brothers, father of the bride, etc. I usually make my trips into Rivas or Managua for bulk shopping once a month so any info on where to go in those cities would be great. or is the duty free shop in the airport a good place/prices?

http://peacewinds.org/rural-development/coffee-rust-a-challenge-for-reth...

Site's Home Page has some additional articles on coffee rust.

that mirror Nicaragua. What I don't understand is how, with their masterful propaganda do the Sandinistas let some incident like Puracal or the "Italian Confiscation" seize the headlines? Both could have been managed so much better, with at least a facade of due process and respect for the rule of law.

Once Hugo Chávez revealed he had cancer what was happening became a very well kept secret all the way through the time of his death. Finally, a reasonable story of what he had and what was happening is revealed in a Reuters article. No matter what else you may think about Chávez, it is pretty clear he will willing to put what he felt was best for Venezuela ahead of even his own life.

Gulf of Fonseca, that is. The Gulf of Fonseca is shared by El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. While El Salvador and Nicaragua have access to the Pacific Ocean along all their western border, it is the only access to the Pacific from Honduras.

Engineering for Change has a series of free Webinars that may give you some ideas. I have talked about Engineering for Change before. They basically look at how technology can be made to fit into situations (primarily low-tech situations) to offer local help.

The webinars are on-line and archived on YouTube. Here are the titles of some past seminars.

• Housing for Families by Families (available in both English and Spanish)
• This course allows guest users to enter

We have previously looked at why Guatemala feels it is a victim in the South America to North America cocaine pipeline and that Guatemala's President has been pretty outspoken about the idea of legalizing drugs in his country as a way to pass the problem on to those who are actively involved: suppliers and users. Most of this has been from the perspective of the President of Guatemala and how the US is opposed to his ideas.

There has been a lot of discussion about the bad side of happenings in the Catholic church all the way to discussions about how the now ex-pope will be protected from prosecution because what was Vatican City became the nation Holy See. These internal issues along with the fact that most Catholics are in Latin America are likely to have influenced the selection of the first Pope from Latin America as well as first from the Southern Hemisphere.