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Quoting his father, Carlos Fernando began,

“As long as there is a typewriter, a sheet of paper, a microphone, a public square, a balcony or any space to speak, even if it is a jail cell, we will continue to denounce those who are immoral, especially when they trade in the social needs of the poorest. That is the main purpose of our existence, as men, as journalists and as citizens.” (“In the face of a holdup they call law,” La Prensa, September 28, 1973).

There is a new survey out by M&R, on education. You can see the results here. This post is about the survey method, not specifically the survey content.

How do I know about this? I was one of the survey participants. That alone seems strange. But, they do admit that the survey was done among Internet users in Nicaragua. It was actually done on SurveyMonkey where you can, for free, do these surveys.

We have our usual discussions about politicians here. Most sane people conclude that honest and politician are pretty close to mutually exclusive. Well, on the news on the radio this morning, they were talking about someone who might be an exception. If not, it is at least amusing.

An ex-porno actress (whose name I missed) is running for mayor of Barcelona. Like all politicians, she has campaign promises but, unlike all other politicians, they are, well, a bit different. Specifically, they are:

This article popped up on MSNBC today - unlike another poster here, I don't mind Rick Steves; in fact there are times he is pretty funny - but only if you wait to see the outtakes on his TV show. I was surprised he'd come to Central America, much less Nicaragua, as his TV program shows travels around Europe.

In any event, it's nice to see him give Nicaragua some press.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42666993/ns/travel-destination_travel/

Microfinance institutions make small loans that primarily benefit small businesses and the rural sector. That is true in Nicaragua as well as in other countries. An article in Microfinance Focus starts off by talking about the cause of the 2008 microfinance crisis in Nicaragua and then goes on to talk about similar events in other parts of the world.

This is an article written in 1983 .

Is well explanatory and touch the many facts affecting the issue. 1983 was just 4 year from the overthrow of Somoza regime, and many of the setbacks and error of the revolution were in development or just coming.

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In the eighties, Libya, like other countries of the Nonaligned Movement, provided the FSLN government agriculturally-related technical cooperation and credits. In 1984 it founded the Libyan Arab Cultural Center in Managua, which promoted cultural events. It still promotes scholarships to train Nicaraguan students in accounting, typing, the Arabic language and sewing. The Libyan government considered its Libyan Arab Agricultural company, with a $15 million investment, “one of Central America’s largest agricultural sector businesses.”

Is well know the efforts for the sympathizers of Cuban dictatorship, trying to downplay whatever negative situation that affect the record of the old communist regime. And trying to portray a Cuba like a paradise with out crime ...is one of them.

I'm not friend of Fyl so i never had have the chance to talk to him about my personal experiences living in Cuba. Like an intelligence officer from Nicaragua., i had a big opportunity to experience the Cuban reality, (because was a trust on me) and even the dirty laundry wasn't hidden from me.

The intervention of the comrade Fidel Castro to the congress of the Cuban Communist Party (the only one in Cuba).

Castro, 84, described socialism as “the art of achieving the impossible: to build up and carry out the Revolution of the humble, by the humble and for the humble, and to defend it for half-a-century from the most potent power that ever existed.” He said that the leadership of the PCC, which is the only legally recognised party in Cuba, must be “able to face up to the politics of empire,” with reference to the US.

Tim Rogers has a new Time article, datelined Bilwi (Puerto Cabezas)

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2063261,00.html?xid=rss-fu...

The government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega organized a massive demonstration to dwarf an anti-Ortega march that was impeded by heavily armed riot police on Saturday.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2011/0403/Eyeing-Middle-East-Nic...

Could Nicaraguan and other countries governments , may have received benefits from the drug money?

Bogota - The reputed Venezuelan drug kingpin who Colombia has decided to extradite back home rather than to the US says in a TV interview that he has videos proving Venezuela's ruling elite is deeply involved in cocaine trafficking.

http://www.news24.com/World/News/Drug-boss-implicates-Chavez-govt-201104...

Well.... here's an interesting change....Last week, Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann was almost Libya's representative to the United Nations. This week, he is Nicaragua's new UN deputy ambassador. He intends to use his position to press for a ceasefire in Libya but, although the appointment is official, he still has only a tourist visa.

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The quick summary is that Libyan honcho Gaddafi has selected former Nicaraguan Foreign Minister and former UN president Miguel d'Escoto to represent Libya at the UN. But, there is a lot more to the story. What is here is pieced together from various press information, most of which seem to leave out various parts of what is happening.

A video titled Doha Debates: This House Believes that Arab Revolutions Will Just Produce Different Dictators is a debate that discusses what the fall of a dictatorship may or may not mean. While its focus is what is happening in the Arab world, the thing which makes this discussion unique has little to do with which nations are involved and all to do with timing.