"These Elections Are Devoid of Ideology"
2001 Agosto Nicaragua
What is the fundamental problem with November’s elections? That most voters are negatively motivated. The Liberal Party is encouraging a ‘vote of fear,’...
NICARAGUA BRIEFS
2001 Agosto Nicaragua
POLITICIZATION OF CSE GOES ALL THE WAY
Intensifying to the nth degree the two-party politicization of the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE), the...
Dollarization: El Salvador’s Third Earthquake
2001 Marzo Nicaragua
Only mischief is planned in secret," charged Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chávez when the government unveiled its plan to dollarize the national economy. The...
NICARAGUA BRIEFS
1995 Mayo Nicaragua
THE TEACHERS' STRIKE HOLDS ON..AND ON
The strike by some 60% of Nicaragua's schoolteachers continued during all of March and was still holding...
For an Equitable and Autonomous Coexistence
1995 Febrero Internacional
"Underdevelopment" Makes Its DebutIn his January 1949 inaugural address, President Truman used the term "underdevelopment" for the first time,...
NICARAGUA BRIEFS
1994 Octubre Nicaragua
INTERNAL FSLN ELECTIONS
Well over 200,000 Sandinista sympathizers, affiliates and militants around the country went to designated centers in...
NICARAGUA BRIEFS
1993 Noviembre Nicaragua
HOSTAGE TO PAYMENTS ON A $1.5 BILLION DEBT
Just after the transport strike, President Chamorro and finance minister Emilio Pereira went to Washington...
NICARAGUA BRIEFS
1993 Agosto Nicaragua
US REDUCES AID
According to the foreign aid bill that President Clinton is sending to Congress, US aid to Nicaragua for FY 1994 will be $66...
Why Social Conflict?
1993 Enero Nicaragua
The growing conflict in November and December was directly attributable to the government's economic policies, whose negative impact on the popultion...