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Why did the current president of the UN General Assembly (GA), Ambassador Nassir Abdulaziz al-Nasser of Qatar, call a special meeting of the General Assembly on February 13, a meeting, as several nations noted, outside the regular procedures of the Gener
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Schaffer's Bridal of Des Moines, Iowa, has signed a 10-year lease for a 10,400-square-foot store northwest of Scottsdale Road and Kierland Boulevard. Larry Ortega and Daniel Ortega of Colliers International negotiated the deal for the building formerly o
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San Jose, Calif. Head Coach Gary St. Clair made the announcement. The six student-athletes
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Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Nicaragua’s Central Bank President Antenor Rosales quit following a disagreement with President Daniel Ortega over the use of foreign currency reserves to fund a regional bank for the Venezuelan-led bloc of eight nations known as A
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Nicaragua’s Central Bank President Antenor Rosales quit amid differences with President Daniel Ortega over plans to use central bank reserves for the creation of a regional bank for a Venezuelan-led bloc of Latin American nations, known as Alba. Ortega h
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MANAGUA Feb 14 (Reuters) - Nicaragua's central bank chief has stepped down after a reported dispute over contributions to a regional development bank backed by Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez. Lawmaker Edwin Castro and other lawmakers said the government c
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HIALEAH — Bashing the "thugocrats" in Venezuela and Cuba, U.S. Senate candidate Connie Mack touted the support of Miami-Dade's Cuban-American congressional representatives Monday in a speech that highlighted his foreign-policy chops. Mack, a Republican F
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LITCHFIELD/TORRINGTON — VOSH-Connecticut held its eleventh annual eye care clinic in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua on Jan. 7-14. This was the fourteenth year of service at this site to the San Juan del Sur area, the eleventh under the auspices of VOSH-Conn
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The views expressed are the author's own. President Daniel Ortega is putting on his banker’s visor and taking time off from denouncing the evils of savage capitalism to try to rai
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Nicaragua may be rich in resources, with abundant rivers, lakes, volcanoes, and wind-swept plains, but it built its economy on being a gas-guzzler. Now, the government is reevaluating its approach, trying to wean Nicaragua off its dependence on foreign o
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Caracas, February 6th 2012 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Member countries of Latin America’s alternative integration bloc, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), met in the Venezuelan capital this weekend in order to discuss the advanc
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By Nicholas Casey MEXICO CITY—Washington has long seen Latin America as its "backyard," a region where American diplomats often interfered in local politics and even helped topple governments. But a raft of political disputes in Washington and the region
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CARACAS, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Presidents and top officials from 11 Latin American countries on Sunday called on organizers of the upcoming Summit of the Americas in April to ensure that Cuba will be invited on equal terms with all other nations in the regi
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Venezuelan soldiers take part in a military parade (AFP, Juan Barreto) CARACAS — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez presided over a military parade Saturday marking the 20th anniversary of his failed coup attempt and affirmed that the country’s armed force
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and other leaders in the left-leaning ALBA bloc backed Argentina on Saturday in its long-running dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands.
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Two prominent faces of Latin American Socialism: Daniel Ortega and Hugo ChavezBy Olivia KrothSources: Blog Hugo Chavez, Correo del OrinocoAt Daniel Ortega's inauguration ceremony on Tuesday, January 10, 2012, more than 8,000 people were present in Managu
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Russia will provide Nicaragua with $41 million for the construction of a medial center in the capital, Managua, La Voz del Sandinismo publication said citing a presidential aide. The sides signed a respective agreement during a meeting of the Russian-Nic
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Russia intends to allocate $41 million to Nicaragua to build a medical center equipped with the latest technology. This was reported by Guillermo Gonzalez, advisor to President Daniel Ortega. The building will be constructed near the international airpor
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José Daniel Ortega Saavedra (pronounced [xoˈse ðanjεl ɔɾteγa sa:ˈβeðɾa]) (born 11 November 1945) is the former 79th and current 83rd President of Nicaragua between 10 January 1985 and 25 April 1990 and from 10 January 2007. For much of his life, he has been a leader in the Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación... Full Article
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