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NICARAGUA VIA HAVANA
Mad River Union
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August 21, 2025
Please join the Arcata-Camoapa Sister City Project at the Havana restaurant in Jacoby’s Storehouse, 791 Eighth St. on Thursday, Aug. 21, for a Pints for Non-profits. Enjoy live music from Angel Fargas from 5 to 7 p.m. Learn about the upcoming I...
Appeals court allows Trump administration to end TPS for Nicaragua, Honduras, Nepal
The Daily Citizen - Arkansas
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A federal appeals court has granted the Trump administration’s request to pause an order from a federal judge who had stopped the termination of deportation protections and work authorizations for immigrants from Nicaragua, Honduras and Nepal....
The Dish: Nicaraguan coffee from Cafe Duskaia in South Philly
6 ABC Action News
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August 21, 2025
SOUTH PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A female coffee farmer from Nicaragua has brought her craft, her culture and her passion for coffee to South Philadelphia. Café Duskaia is in the heart of the Italian Market and the strong scent of good, mountain grown...
Nicaragua greets Afghanistan on the anniversary of its independence
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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August 19, 2025
It is our pleasure to address you and to convey you on behalf of the people and the Government of Reconciliation and National Unity of Nicaragua, as well as on our own, our fraternal congratulations to your government and to the brotherly Afghan...
Cuban Flames, Imperialist Tundra
CovertAction Magazine
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August 23, 2025
Danny Shaw with friends in Cuba. [Source: Photo courtesy of Danny Shaw] An Ethnographic Portrait of Youth, the Blockade and Survival in Havana Today, on the 72nd Anniversary of the July 26th Attack Argentinian sociologist Atilio Borón, analyzing...
Nicaragua to begin yellow fever vaccination campaign
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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August 18, 2025
Immunization against the disease caused by the Aedes aegypti mosquito will be administered in each municipality according to a vaccination schedule, according to a MINSA statement. According to the report, workers at border crossings, tourist...
Empire, Colonialism and Solidarity: A Conversation with Nick Estes
Venezuelanalysis
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August 23, 2025
An enrolled member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, well-known historian Nick Estes co-hosts The Red Nation podcast. He is the author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of...
Bolivia’s presidential election and the rise of a centrist landscape
Taipei Times
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August 23, 2025
A tech-savvy centrist senator is to face a former president vowing free-market liberalism in a contest reshaping Bolivian politics after two decades of leftist rule One candidate is Rodrigo Paz, a conservative centrist senator and son of...
The Morning Briefing: Let's Trade the Vodka for Diet Coke. I Have a Kremlin Hangover.
PJ Media - Virginia
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August 18, 2025
Happy Monday, Morning Briefing readers. I'm filling in for Kruiser today — I'm not sure where he is, but the last time any of us saw him, he was chasing and cursing the ice cream man because he ran out of Bomb Pops. It's also his mom's 87th...
The courts are speedrunning the end of democracy
Daily Kos
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August 23, 2025
Injustice for All is a weekly series about how the Trump administration is trying to weaponize the justice system—and the people who are fighting back. Of course a 90-year-old agency is unconstitutional, you rubes It’s nice of the 5th U.S. Circuit...
Nicaraguan governor seizes Catholic school amid claims it is site of past crimes
OSV News
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August 14, 2025
(OSV News) — Nicaragua’s ruling Sandinista regime has seized a prominent Catholic school, claiming without proof that it had operated a “torture” center during past protests and renaming the education facility for a slain partisan. The Colegio San...
“My Future Is Not in Nicaragua”
Havana Times
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August 16, 2025
Thousands have their documents apostilled in case they have to leave. Nicaraguans line up to have their documents apostilled at the Foreign Ministry in Managua, in February 2025. // Photo | Taken from La Primerísima radio station “We must be ready...
Nicaragua’s New “Super” Prosecutor’s Office
Havana Times
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August 12, 2025
Illustration by Confidencial The Attorney General’s Office has shifted from being the “State’s lawyer” to a repressive arm used to confiscate, spy on, and dismiss. With its powers greatly expanded, its new role will also include bringing formal...
As legal status is set to end for many Haitians, Mass. health care sector braces for staffing shortages
WBUR - Massachusetts
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In the living room of a Randolph apartment, a 3-year-old boy beams as he shows off his electric tricycle. His father, Jacques, smiles, but he has big worries. His boss at a Boston hospital just told him he’ll be let go if he can’t secure a new...
Exiled priest calls Nicaraguan governor seizures of Catholic school ’theft’
The Catholic Register
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August 14, 2025
Nicaragua's ruling Sandinista regime has seized a prominent Catholic school, claiming without proof that it had operated a "torture" centre during past protests and renaming the education facility for a slain partisan. The Colegio San José de...
Nicaragua: The Abuse of Indigenous Political Prisoners
Havana Times
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August 10, 2025
Detained indigenous people from the Mayangna tribe being exhibited with other criminal bands by police at the end of 2021. Photo from government website “El 19 Digital” Twelve indigenous leaders detained in Nicaragua’s “La Modelo” men’s prison and...
Eat Athens: Playa Bowls makes health food with a tropical twist
Athens Banner Herald - Georgia
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Playa Bowls, a health food restaurant in Athens, Georgia, offers a variety of tropical-inspired fruit bowls, smoothies, and juices. Founded by surfers, the restaurant's menu features bases like acai, pitaya, and kale, with customizable toppings...
Mass. immigrants who had legal status lose work in home and health care
WGBH - Massachusetts
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August 13, 2025
For more than a year, Robert spent his days getting seniors dressed, taking their vital signs and helping them eat at Edgewood LifeCare Community in North Andover. But one day in May, that changed. A human resources officer said his work permit...
Nicaragua: Medical Clinics Shut Down and Patients Evicted
Havana Times
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August 6, 2025
Affects thousands of Amocsa members Photo of the Neonatology Unit at Amocsa. Photo taken from its website. Doctors received orders to immediately stop treating patients; who will care for the members who had contracts with Amocsa? By Ivan Olivares...
A Quartet of Nicaragua Critics Sings from Washington’s Songbook
Dissident Voice
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August 11, 2025
by John Perry and Roger D. Harris / August 11th, 2025 In recent weeks, a motley crew of writers has found common cause in attacking Nicaragua’s Sandinista government: Jaden Hong, a high-school student from Sammamish, Washington, who has never...