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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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Former Contras differ over value of war with Sandinistas Alfonso Chardy The Miami Herald Alfonso Chardy McClatchy Newspapers Updated: 2012-02-01T12:55:51Z More News It was at the end of January 1982 that the Contras, with help from the CIA, approved a pl
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Two bridges in north Nicaragua became targets of the fi
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In Nicaragua the support of the country's youth for the Frente Sandinista has played a decisive role in the country's development under the government of President Daniel Ortega. In this video, young people at grass roots talk about why they identify wit
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In Nicaragua, fears that Or
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L’Oreal SA (OR), the French beauty-care company, sued the owners of Coppertone and Neutrogena, claiming their sunscreens use patented ingredients. In dispute are parents 5,576,354, issued in November 1996, and 5,587,150, issued in December 1996. Both cov
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COUNTRY DESCRIPTION: The second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, Nicaragua is a developing nation with an increasingly authoritarian government. Significant irregularities in the electoral process marred the national elections in November 2011.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg’s 2,400-word front-page Friday New York Times profile of Republican candidate Newt Gingrich, “Gingrich Stuck to Caustic Path in Ethics Battles,” rehashed the standard liberal storyline about the former House Speaker’s aggressive stanc
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WASHINGTON » Newt Gingrich had an urgent warning for conservatives: Jim Wright, the Democratic speaker of the House, was out to destroy America. It was April 1988, a month before Gingrich, an up-and-coming Republican congressman, shocked colleagues by pr
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Has Venezuela’s notoriously fractured opposition not only found a candidate around who it can unite, but one who can beat the incumbent? “Incumbents in Latin America rarely lose reelection bids,” notes Michael Penfold, an Associate Professor at the Insti
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Editor's Note: Michael Penfold is Associate Professor at the Institute for Higher Administrative Studies in Caracas and co-author of Dragon in the Tropics: Hugo Chavez and the Political Economy of Revolution in Venezuela. By Michael Penfold , Foreign Aff
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Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega greets supporters at the swearing-in ceremony for his second term as president, with Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez (second right), at the Revolution Square in Managua, Nicaragua, January 10, 2012. The United States
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(Note to Arizona’s Governor Brewer: if you really want to put the public smack down, it helps if you can get the other guy on his knees first.) The photograph depicts the famous Managua airport encounter between Fr. Ernesto Cardenal and John Paul the Gre
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Oscar Ramiro-Ortega Hernandez is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon in the November shooting. He was indicted last week. Man
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According to Sen. Marco Rubio’s Jan 10 Other Views c
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Presidents Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua make no secret of their contempt for independent media in their own countries. But their equally thin-skinned counterpart Rafael Correa of Ecuador poses a far greater threat to the press
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Joint projects that may be approved at a meeting of the Russian-Nicaraguan intergovernmental commission are worth $600 million, La Prensa publication reported citing the Central American country’s development, industry and commerce minister, Orlando Solo
About Daniel Ortega
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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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