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Number 266 | Septiembre 2003 |
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Nicaragua
The Compass Needle Points North
Wallowing in a sea of incoherencies and political instability, President Bolaños and his team are charting the only clear course on the nation’s compass.
While the rest of the country is far from convinced, they
feel strong and sure, because the needle is pointing to the North.
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Nicaragua
Central American-US Free Trade Agreement: Opportunity or Nightmare for Nicaragua?
The seventh round of negotiations for a free trade agreement between Central America and the United States is scheduled for September 15-19 in Managua.
Our reflections on textile investments and agriculture offer clues to Nicaragua’s future
once the treaty is signed.
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Nicaragua
Caribbean Coast: Multiethnic, Multilingual ...and Finally Autonomous?
After 16 years, the National Assembly finally approved a regulatory law to implement the Autonomy Statute for Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast. After such a long wait, what shape is the Coast in to receive it? Four Caribbean voices from Bilwi and Bluefields, the two
autonomous regions’ capitals, offer their views.
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Nicaragua
Youth Gang Members and Tattoos: Stigma, Identity and Art
Young people everywhere are using tattoos as a sign of identity.
What specific meanings do youth gangs attach to the ones they choose?
The following reflection on the modern-day identity, stigma and art expressed in this ancient cultural expression
is based on the most common tattoos used in one gang-dominated section of Managua.
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Nicaragua
“We Urgently Need a Secular State For the Sake of Women’s Health”
A gynecologist and activist on women’s issues
describes some of the extremely serious health problems
women face due to the lack of state policies on population,
health and education that are at all in touch with reality.
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Nicaragua
NICARAGUA BRIEFS
CONTINUING CONTROVERSY OVER NICAS IN IRAQ
A task force of 115 Nicaraguan army personnel (sappers, doctors and their defense support) left Nicaragua for Spain, en route for Iraq, on August 12.... continuar...
El Salvador
A “Hard Hand”: State Violence Against Youth Gangs
El Salvador’s government has decided to respond with force and
violence to the social problem represented by youth gangs.
Its objectives are clearly electoral and its style is the
repressive authoritarianism deeply rooted
in the ARENA party.
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Honduras
The March on Tegucigalpa: “It’s Our Water!”
Hondurans have just carried out their country’s largest, best organized, and most coherently focused demonstration in the last forty years, the first step
on a road full of challenges.
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a monthly magazine of analysis on Central America