Six years on, the inner workings of ALBA in Nicaragua remain
a mystery to all but a select coterie. That’s because Ortega’s inner circle of
family members and confidants has privatized Venezuelan aid through a web of
businesses linked to a main holding company called “ALBANISA,” short for ALBA
of Nicaragua, S.A.
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Saturday, October 6, 2012
Politics: Nicaraguan President Warns of Heathen 'puppets' on eve of Venezuelan Elections
Of course wealth is good, but the wealth of the few, at the
cost of the immense majority of people on this planet who live in extreme
poverty, who are living in hunger, who are dying due to lack of medicine, who
can’t go to school, that is bad wealth.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Crime: Nicaraguan rights groups call sexual abuse an ‘epidemic’
Last year,
3,660 allegations of sexual abuse were reported in Nicaragua. According to the
National Police’s Statistics Commission for Women and Children, in the first
six months of this year, 1,873 abuse allegations were filed, of which 1,050
involved children under the age of 14. Many others go unreported.
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