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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...
Nicaragua: Anti-Canal Leader Dies under Police Harassment
Havana Times
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June 22, 2025
Octavio Ortega Arana was persecuted until his final day Octavio Ortega Arana, a leader of the anti-canal struggle, in a photo from January 2015. // Photo: Archive | CONFIDENCIAL The peasant leader led protests against the proposed expropriation of...
Nicaragua attends St. Petersburg Economic Forum
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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June 19, 2025
During the meeting, which will be held until June 21, the Nicaraguan representation will develop work in the medical, financial, parliamentary, media and cultural fields, among others. In addition, the agenda includes meetings with Russian...
Nicaraguan Accused of Assaulting ICE Officers in San Jose
San Jose Inside - California
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June 19, 2025
A federal grand jury has indicted a 25-year-old Nicaraguan national on charges of assaulting three U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation officers at an ICE facility in San Jose in May. Morales was first charged in a May 2025...
Nicaraguan national charged with assaulting ICE agents in San Jose
East Bay Times - California
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June 18, 2025
SAN JOSE – A 25-year-old Nicaraguan national is facing charges he assaulted three U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation officers last month in San Jose, federal prosecutors said. Francisco De-Jesus Morales was indicted by a grand...
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...
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...
Comment: Immigration crackdown has economic fallout for all
Herald - Washington State
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June 24, 2025
By Jonathan Levin / Bloomberg Opinion Like it or not, parts of the U.S. economy depend on undocumented and other low-wage immigrant workers. The system has evolved to assume they would always be here, especially in areas such as agriculture,...
Should We Deplorables have a ‘No Walmart Day?’
American Thinker
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June 24, 2025
Seventy-six-year-old Walmart heiress, Christy Walton, promoted the “No Kings Day” protest, while the rest of the nation enjoyed a Washington, D.C. military parade celebrating the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, which happened to fall on...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...