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Mission trip to Nicaragua becomes artform for GCU students
GCU Today
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June 23, 2025
Angelica Marmolejo and Victoria Farrell (back row) and Nicaraguan students display an art project after a lesson about Jesus washing His disciples' feet. (Photo by Angelica Marmolejo) Grand Canyon University pre-med major Angelica Marmolejo...
Nicaraguan, Mexicans, Californians charged with assaulting ICE agents in California
Regional Media News - Iowa
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June 17, 2025
(The Center Square) – As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents continue to be assaulted when arresting foreign nationals in the U.S. illegally with lawful immigration orders, U.S. attorneys in California are prosecuting them. In northern...
Nicaragua’s Pioneer Stateswoman Who Beat Ortega and Sought Harmony
LatinAmerican Post
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June 16, 2025
When Violeta Barrios de Chamorro stunned the hemisphere in 1990 by unseating the Sandinista revolution, many Nicaraguans saw only a grieving widow in a white dress. They soon discovered a steely publisher determined to cut rifles in half and teach...
Nicaragua's first female president Chamorro dies at 95
The Gazette - Colorado
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(Reuters) -Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who in 1990 became the first female president of Nicaragua and the Americas, died early Saturday morning in Costa Rica at the age of 95, her family announced in a statement. Chamorro, who suffered a stroke...
‘Fear and anxiety’: Charleroi’s Haitian, immigrant population grapples with uncertainty
Observer-Reporter - Pennsylvania
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July 8, 2025
/Local News 1 / 2 First United Methodist Church in Charleroi has seen a drop in attendance in recent months, since the Trump administration suspended TPS and CHNV, two humanitarian programs that have allowed immigrants to live and work in the U.S....
Nicaragua: Attorney General Now Controls University Grants
Havana Times
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June 12, 2025
National Engineering University during an earthquake drill. Photo: from the University website Students from several universities told to resubmit their scholarship requests by June 20 to the Attorney General’s Office, now charged with...
'Blood for food': The US soldier-spies sidelining UN aid work in Gaza
California Telegraph
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Hundreds of Gazan civilians have been killed while seeking aid, including from sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a US- and Israel-backed private entity that rights groups say lacks the expertise to distribute aid in accordance...
Nicaraguan journalists ask Spain for citizenship after being left in legal limbo
LatAm Journalism Review
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June 10, 2025
Like Viktor Navorski, the character played by Tom Hanks in the film The Terminal, a group of Nicaraguan journalists live trapped in a legal limbo that condemns them to exile and legal nonexistence. In the fictional story, Navorski is stranded in a...
Christians Increasingly Abused in Nicaragua’s Prisons
International Christian Concern
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June 18, 2025
6/18/2025 Nicaragua (International Christian Concern) — In recent years, Nicaragua’s prison system has become a nightmare for Christian political prisoners and whoever else speak against the Sandinista National Liberation Front (SNLF) and the...
Ret. Nicaraguan Major Roberto Samcam Killed in Costa Rica
Havana Times
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June 19, 2025
Roberto Samcam, retired Army major, during an interview with the program Esta Semana, in 2019. // Photo: Confidencial He was shot eight times inside his home in San Jose, sustaining injuries to the chest, abdomen, and lower limbs, according to the...
Nicaragua to export live cattle to Mexico
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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June 9, 2025
In statements to the Informe Pastrán newsletter, the head of the Institute for Agricultural Protection and Health (IPSA) indicated that this agreement with the Mexican nation will be signed on June 22 and establishes a steady line of exports. He...
Which countries have rabies? How to avoid disease after woman dies following Morocco holiday
Metro
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June 19, 2025
Rabies can be fatal if it is not treated immediately (Picture: Getty Images) A British woman has died of rabies after she was ‘scratched’ by a puppy while on holiday in Morocco. Yvonne Ford, 59, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, had what has been...
Which countries have rabies? How to avoid disease after woman dies following Morocco holiday
Metro
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June 19, 2025
Rabies can be fatal if it is not treated immediately (Picture: Getty Images) A British woman has died of rabies after she was ‘scratched’ by a puppy while on holiday in Morocco. Yvonne Ford, 59, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, had what has been...
Religious leaders released from Nicaraguan prison say their experience only strengthens their faith
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Georgia
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Orozco thought his innocence would eventually surface. So when the U.S. government announced that it had secured his release along with other political prisoners, he wasn't completely surprised. “That’s when I understood,” the pastor said. “God...
High-powered Americans are easing into healthy retirement by moving to a Blue Zone paradise — where homes start at $4.35M
New York Post
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June 18, 2025
When Ricardo Caceres first set foot on Conchal Beach as a child, it was little more than a quiet stretch of white sand where locals camped and played in the crystal-clear waters. “That’s been my favorite beach for a very long time,” he told The...
Violeta Chamorro, Nicaraguan leader who championed Catholic, democratic values, dies
The Catholic Sun - New York
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June 17, 2025
ABOVE: Then-U.S. President George H.W Bush gestures after then-Nicaraguan President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro presented Bush with a disarmed Soviet made AK-47 in New York City Sept. 29, 1990. Chamorro, who led a coalition of 14 political parties...
My Mother Will Return to Her Homeland When Nicaragua Becomes a Republic Again
Q Costa Rica
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June 17, 2025
RICO’s Q — “My Mother Will Return to Her Homeland When Nicaragua Becomes a Republic Again,” were the words of Carlos Fernando Chamorro, son of former President of Nicaragua, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who died last weekend in Costa Rica, at the...
U.S. Warns Americans to Avoid Nicaragua Amid Authoritarian Risks
Tico Times
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June 16, 2025
The U.S. State Department is urging Americans to skip travel to Nicaragua due to increasing authoritarianism that puts tourists at risk. The Level 3 travel advisory, active since December 2024, points to arbitrary law enforcement, possible...
Violeta Chamorro, post-civil war president of Nicaragua
The Times
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Sunday dinner at Violeta Chamorro’s house was a microcosm of how deeply divided Nicaragua was in the Eighties. Two of her children, Carlos and Claudia, supported the Marxist-leaning Sandinistas that had taken power in 1979 after overthrowing the...
As US population ages, America's home health workforce is at risk from Trump
The Economic Times
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June 16, 2025
President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown threatens to shrink the workforce for one of America’s fastest growing jobs: Home health and personal care aides. Demand for such care is expected to swell as the US population ages, and the industry...