Nicaragua is latest in Latin America to reject term limits
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The most recent Latin American leader to overturn presidential term limits is Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega.
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The global quest for an everything-is-gonna-be-all-right pill
RFK Action Front (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
You know what people would be willing to spend a bajillion dollars on? An everything-is-gonna-be-all-right pill. Isn't that exactly what heroin is? And cocaine? And alcohol. And nicotine. Often people who use these drugs are portrayed as irresponsible hedonistic "pleasure seekers." And while that may be true in some cases, for the vast majority of people I don't think that's exactly what's...
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Protect and Serve? The Status of Police Reform in Central America
Democracy Resource Center Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
URL: http://www.wola.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=viewp&id=943&Itemid=33 . Source: Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). This report paints a portrait of the police in Central America today. It draws on interviews conducted by in-country experts with government officials, current and former police, representatives of international aid agencies, and civil society leaders in...
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Nicaraguan Prisoners Repatriated
Top 10 Costa Rica (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Seven Nicaraguans serving time in prison in Costa Rica were sent home to their native land yesterday, to serve out their prison term in Nicaragua. The prisoners benefited from an agreement wich Costa Rica has with a number of countries to repatriate prisoners. The seven, that included those involved in the 1994 kidnapping of executives of Cabo [...]
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$238 R/T Central America Sale Fares on American*
Smarter Travel (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Fall and winter flights to Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama are on sale from American. Although the sale has a long purchase window, don't delay on booking tickets if you want to find a low price.
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Bolivia presents Bolivia presents Resolution “Harmony with Mother Earth” at the UN
The Lazy Environmentalist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The winds of change, they are a blowing. Values are suddenly the currency of the day. Time magazine believes we have the beginnings of a Responsibility Revolution . But to establish what those responsibilities are, the values that underpin them have to be determined first. Values are the bedrock of the new world that we are creating. So what of these values? Interestingly, it is not just the talk of...
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Ortega urges non-violence in Saturday's massive protests
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Managua - The spectre of huge protests and counter-protests at week's end in the capital city prompted Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Wednesday to urge his own supporters to practice non- violence. His supporters have organized a demonstration of...
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ReThink/ReBe Confirmation
emergingumc (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
On a blog I read fairly regularly (Dan Dick's outstanding United Methodeviations ), one person spoke of the importance of actually “using” youth and younger adults “in church leadership,” as opposed to doing confirmation and them telling them to wait several years before they can serve in such roles. I wasn't sure what the writer meant, and admitted that. But if it was what...
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Subversive Historian - 11/19/09
uprisingradio.org (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Listen to this segment | the entire program U.S. Warships in Nicaragua Back in the day on November 18th, 1909, President William Howard Taft ordered two U.S. warships to Nicaragua. The show of force was in response to the execution of two Americans, Lee Roy Cannon and Leonard Groce. The pair [...]
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Ability to Guess Others' Thoughts Tied to Language Proficiency
Scientific American (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
What’s this guy thinking? Does he know what I know? Most of us develop the ability to make inferences about what other people might be thinking, the hallmark of “theory of mind,” at age four. Scientists have long known that the acquisition of language plays a role in this process, but so far it had been unclear whether social experience could substitute for it. A new study suggests...
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Manufacturing A Terror Threat In Latin America
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
By Cyril Mychalejko November 16, 2009 Courtesy Of "Information Clearing House" Latin America may soon become the next front in Washington's so-called "War on Terror." Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) , Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, held a hearing on Oct. 27 to investigate his "serious concerns about expanded Iranian influence in the region.”...
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Around the Mission: 11/17 Padres Links
Gaslamp Ball (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Leading by example with Padres flair View full size photo » XX Sports Radio: Tom Garfinkel Interview (MP3) Garfinkel likes to quote old movies. Jed Hoyer has the final say on any Gonzalez trade. The Padres won't shop Gonzalez but they will listen to offers. Garfinkel dated a girl from Nicaragua at one point. He's become a Chargers fan. "At the end of the day... autonomy... moving forward...
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Inmates riot in Nicaraguan prison
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Managua - More than 150 inmates rioted in a provincial Nicaraguan prison, and authorities mobilized hundreds of police to restore order, local radio stations reported. The pro-government Nueva Radio Ya said at least five inmates were injured and one ...
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Communism Refuses to Die in Latin America
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
"The fall of the Berlin Wall restored common sense to Europe, but what about Latin America?" asks Pedro José Izquierdo — A continent where Communism lingers on . An excerpt: Populist dictatorships of various creeds have popped up all over the continent, from Bolivia to Nicaragua, passing through Ecuador and, of course, the pitiable rising star, Venezuela, not to mention the island...
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Nicaragua Comics Travel Journal
Alec Longstreth's Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Another great comic book that I read recently is the Nicaragua Comics Travel Journal by Marek Bennett. Marek makes me feel lazy. I like to think of myself as a busy, productive person, but Marek does pretty much everything I do (he self-publishes his awesome Mimi's Doughnuts Zine , he teaches comics and he even makes music ) and then on top of that he also does WAY MORE stuff that I will never do....
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SFGate: Day in Pictures
kellya | 14/11/2008
Nicaraguan hothead: A masked supporter of the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front party protests Nicaragua's election council in Managua. The council agreed to allow a review of the capital's mayoral vote results after opponents of leftist President Daniel Ortega cried fraud.