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Opinion: Nicaragua’s sad and costly ‘stabilization’
Nine months since protests against worsening living conditions in Latin America’s second-poorest country began, the Nicaraguan opposition is being terrorized and is less able to stage anti-government rallies. However, President Daniel Ortega’s prospects for hanging on to power are also uncertain: his government has few friends and the country’s economic difficulties are mounting.
Nicaragua embarks on new, but highly controversial, canal venture
Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega has pledged that a new venture to build a canal joining the Pacific and Atlantic oceans will jump-start Nicaragua's economy. A concession for a Hong Kong based consortium to build the canal was approved in June 2013 by the National Assembly. But critics warn that the ...
