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Theatro Naturale reports that Nicaragua is to begin cotton production. The idea is to make local materials available to support textile production.

During the first phase of this agricultural project, private producers will begin a pilot program of approximately 1,609 acres of cotton plantations in order to observe the performance of the crop, the resistance of the seed and determine the type of seeds fit for this project, among other factors.

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Viva Nicaragua Canal 13

Will air June 13 with comprehensive programming, original, very fresh, young-profile and focused on social issues

A young age profile and news focusing on social issues, is part of what is offered by Viva Nicaragua Canal 13 that will air on Monday 13 June in the airwaves and cable 19 digital.com

Alvaro Orozco, a gay artist from Nicaragua, has been granted Permanent Resident status in Canada. He was to be deported today. This has been an ongoing story and you can find other posts about it here.

An article published in the Tucson Sentinel offers a look at the Sao Paulo Forum meeting in Managua this past week. While the article seems to start with reporter opinion, it then goes on to offer some useful insights on the forum.

An article in Insight Crime talks about Nicaragua's success in anti-drug work. The star player is the Nicaraguan Navy. Nicaragua is one of the victim countries on the path between cocaine-producing countries and cocaine-using countries.

The U.S. State Department said that Nicaragua had confiscated 17.5 tons of cocaine in 2010, nearly double that of 2009.

a href="http://www.escambray.cu/Eng/world/saopauloforum110518439" target="_blank">Escambray/a> reports that the the Sao Paulo Forum opens in Manauga. It includes representatives from more than 50 political parties and leftist organizations from South America and other countries.

he focus of the event, as at previous meetings, is Latin American and Caribbean unity, but this time it holds greater significance given the upcoming founding meeting in July, in Caracas, of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

By the Associated Press

Mirna Cunningham has assumed leadership of the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Cunningham is a Miskito Indian who was governor for Nicaragua's Atlantic region. She took over as chairwoman as the annual two-week session opened Monday.

The forum aims to advance the rights of the world's 370 million indigenous people. More than 1,300 delegates are reviewing issues from economic development to the environment.

Cunningham is former General Secretary of the Inter-American Indigenous Institute.

The illegal organ trade is the ugly side of the otherwise legal medical tourism industry, in which people travel to other countries for cut-rate hip replacements, tummy tucks and gastric bypasses.

Affluent, often desperately ill patients travel to countries such as Egypt, Peru and the Philippines, where poor people sell them their organs. In Latin America, the transplants are usually arranged by unlicensed brokers. They’re performed – for fees – by accredited surgeons.

The land problems is a 24/7 problem in Nicaragua.

But when is related to foreigner investor, is a strong motivation: "money".

The avalanche of foreigner to our country has bring new ways to help to the economic recovery , but also has started a series of conflicts motivated for the greed or poverty of some people.

This area has been under litigation between the owners and the recipients of land titles received from different governments, in this case this land belong to Somoza dynasty and was adjudicated to agricultural coop by President Violeta Chamorro administration.

Yesterday, the Nicaraguan Assembly approved a measure to work with the US military on anti-narcotics activities in Nicaragua. The article is from Xinhua news service, reported in English by Peoples Daily China. The article reports that President Ortega submitted this to the legislature for consideration as an urgent matter.

Today Eduardo Enriquez one of the main journalist of LA PRENSA, report that is ongoing negotiations between END shareholders and the Party government owners, related to the acquisition of END.

Already Tomas Borge and Bayardo Arce owned 13% of END shares.

The motive of this transaction, is that END is almost in bankruptcy.

Our friend Fyl. like to point out to what he believe; are the right sources of information. Radio Ya , according to Fyl is one of them.

Firs at all, i think for nobody is a secret that Radio Ya is part of the media network of the party government. Starting from this fact, is a controversy to id this Radio like a standard media press, is more accuracy say that is a propaganda media, exclusively under the guidelines and objectives of one party.

KIRO, a Seattle Washington TV station has a piece about a Tacoma man who has lived in San Juan del Sur being jailed for a crime his family says he didn't commit. Drugs, of some sort. (There is the TV news segment on the web site but the fact that it starts with a commercial is pretty irritating.)

We all know what organically grown is supposed to mean for the consumer. Then there is fair trade where a price is set that is supposed to mean growers get to make a reasonable profit (and Starbucks gets to say they are good people). An article in The Vancouver Sun questions whether any of this is really a win for the growers.

If you have wondered if the Survivor episodes in Nicaragua could offer any long-term benefits, it looks like the answer is yes. Not in any way you might have expected but in creating a temporary income boost for the men, freeing up the women to actually start a community business.

It's an example of cooperation along with a bit of a temporary boost to get things rolling.