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Second strong earthquake rattles Nicaragua
Nicaragua has been hit by a 6.6 magnitude strong earthquake, the second in as many days.
Nicaragua reveals Snowden’s letter requesting asylum
Nicaragua has revealed details from Edward Snowden’s request for asylum, in which Snowden says it is unlikely he will receive a fair trial in the US.
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Nicaragua’s Ortega claims third-term electoral victory
Former Marxist guerrilla leader Daniel Ortega has claimed a third term in office after partial results gave him a strong lead in Nicaragua polls.
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Bodies wash up in Nicaragua from hurricane
Bodies of Miskito Indians killed by Hurricane Felix floated in the Caribbean off Central America and washed up on beaches on Thursday as the death toll from the storm rose to over 60. Many of the dead were travelling by boat when they were hit by huge waves as Felix struck near the border between Honduras and Nicaragua on Tuesday
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Felix kills four in Central America
Hurricane Felix ripped into Central America on Tuesday, trashing a port on Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast, killing at least four people and threatening dangerous mudslides in Honduras and Guatemala. The storm, which hit land as a powerful category-five hurricane, ravaged Puerto Cabezas in northern Nicaragua, where howling winds tore the roofs off homes and shelters and damaged a church.
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US Cold War foe Ortega back in power in Nicaragua
Former Marxist guerrilla and Cold War veteran Daniel Ortega returned to power in Nicaragua on Wednesday and celebrated another leftist election triumph in Latin America with United States foe Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Ortega (61) was sworn in almost 17 years after voters, tired of a vicious civil war with US-backed Contra rebels, threw him out of office.
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Ortega near comeback in tense Nicaragua vote
Nicaraguans voted in huge numbers for a new president on Sunday with former Marxist guerrilla Daniel Ortega close to returning to power despite opposition from the United States. Sixteen years after he was thrown out of office by voters tired of a civil war with US-backed Contra rebels, the mustachioed Sandinista leader was ahead of his conservative rivals.
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Hurricane Beta slammed Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast, then weakened on Sunday to a tropical storm, triggering life-threatening flash floods and mudslides. By 23.59pm GMT, Beta diminished in strength to a tropical storm with sustained winds of up to 60km per hour and was expected to become a tropical depression, according to the United States National Hurricane Centre in Miami.
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Hurricane Beta dumped heavy rains and whipped up winds on Central America’s Caribbean coast on Saturday, prompting Nicaraguan troops to evacuate thousands of people as Honduras declared a maximum state of alert. The storm strengthened to a category-two hurricane before reaching the mainland on Sunday.
