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This NOAA satellite image taken Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 12:45 PM EST shows broken low clouds and scattered showers within 120 nautical miles of a dissipating cold front extending from the Windward Passage to Jamaica to northern Honduras. To the... View Photo »
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A ferry arrives at the harbor of the Ometepe Island in Nicaragua February 10, 2012. Nicaragua awaits the arrival of 1.1 million foreign tourists to visit the beaches and colonial cities of the country for 2012, reported Mario Salinas, the president of... View Photo »
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A surfer walks along the Maderas beach on the Nicaraguan Pacific coast, February 10, 2012. Nicaragua awaits the arrival of 1.1 million foreign tourists to visit the beaches and colonial cities of the country for 2012, reported Mario Salinas, the... View Photo »
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A tourist fishes on the Maderas beach in Nicaragua facing the Pacific Ocean February 10, 2012. Nicaragua awaits the arrival of 1.1 million foreign tourists to visit the beaches and colonial cities of the country for 2012, reported Mario Salinas, the... View Photo »
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A woman washes clothes at Lake Cocibolca in Nicaragua February 10, 2012. Lake Cocibolca is the largest lake in Central America, covering an area of 3,166 square miles (8,200 square km). View Photo »
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This NOAA satellite image taken Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 12:45 PM EST shows scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms near the coasts of Honduras, Nicaragua, and Belize. Meanwhile, clusters of isolated showers move across the Lesser Antilles... View Photo »
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Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega attends the plenary session of the ALBA (Boliviarian Alternative for the Americas) summit in Caracas February 5, 2012. View Photo »
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez (2nd L) greets Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega during the welcoming ceremony of the ALBA (Boliviarian Alternative for the Americas) summit in Caracas February 4, 2012. Chavez's daughter Rosa (L) and Ortega's wife... View Photo »
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (C), accompanied by his counterparts (L-R), Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, Cuba's Raul Castro, Bolivia's Evo Morales and Haiti's Michael Martelly, attends a military parade to commemorate the 20th anniversary of his failed coup... View Photo »
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (R) speaks with his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro (C) as Nicaragua's daniel Ortega looks on, during a military parade to commemorate the 20th anniversary of his failed coup attempt, on February 4, 2012, in Caracas. View Photo »
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, left, and Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega embrace during the welcoming ceremony for the eight-nation Bolivarian Alliance bloc, or ALBA, summit at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday Feb. 4,... View Photo »
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From left: Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega, Cuba's President Raul Castro, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and Bolivia's President Evo Morales attend a military paradeto commemorate the XX th anniversary of a 1992 failed coup attempt led by him... View Photo »
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez , right, speaks with Cuba's President Raul Castro and Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega on the left, during a military parade to commemorate the XX anniversary of a failed coup attempt that President Hugo Chavez led as... View Photo »
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Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega conveys condolences to a relative of one three military doctors who died during a car accident while they were doing medical studies in Caracas January 31, 2012. View Photo »
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This NOAA satellite image taken Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 12:45 PM EST shows broken to overcast multi-layered clouds over the Yucatan Channel due to a stationary front over the region. Scattered moderate convection occurs over the Gulf of Honduras and... View Photo »
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Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega speaks to bus drivers at the Xolotlan square in Managua January 26, 2012. Ortega said Thursday his government sold 120 Mexican-made buses to transport companies to improve the public transportation system in the country. View Photo »
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In this Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012 photo, relatives mourn for Segundo Zapata Palacios inside his home in Chichigalpa, Nicaragua. Zapata, who worked as a sugar cane cutter for 20 years at the San Antonio sugar plantation, died of chronic kidney disease on... View Photo »
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In this Friday, Jan. 27, 2012 photo, the body of Segundo Zapata Palacios is driven to the cemetery during his funeral procession past the sugar cane fields where he worded in Chichigalpa, Nicaragua. Zapata, who worked as a sugar cane cutter for 20 years... View Photo »
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In this Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012 photo, Segundo Zapata Palacios' daughter hugs his body as his children mourn for him inside their home in Chichigalpa, Nicaragua. Zapata, who worked as a sugar cane cutter for 20 years at the San Antonio sugar plantation,... View Photo »
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In this Friday, Jan. 27, 2012 photo, Wilson de Jesus Zapata is embraced by his wife at the tomb of his father Segundo Zapata Palacios after his burial at the cemetery in Chichigalpa, Nicaragua. Zapata, a who worked as a sugar cane cutter for 20 years at... View Photo »
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Nicaragua (Spanish: República de Nicaragua, IPA [re'puβlika ðe nika'raɰwa]) is a democratic republic in Central America. It is the largest nation in the isthmus, but also the least densely populated with a demographic similar in size to its smaller neighbours. The country is bordered on the north by Honduras and on the south by Costa Rica. Its... Full Article
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, left, and Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega embrace during the welcoming ceremony for the eight-nation Bolivarian Alliance bloc, or ALBA, summit at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday Feb. 4, 2012.
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Marina Arguello, the chief of Nicaragua's National Zoo poses with a three week-old female jaguar, in her home near the zoo, in Masaya department, about 20 km south of Managua, on January 25 2012.
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Marina Arguello, the chief of Nicaragua's National Zoo feeds ''Limi'' (L) and ''Bulni'', two three week-old female jaguars, in her home near the zoo, in Masaya department, about 20 km south of Managua, on January 25 2012.
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