GenevaLunch » Nicaragua http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:57:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Nicaraguan reporter flees the country to avoid being murdered http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/26/nicaraguan-reporter-flees-the-country-to-avoid-being-murdered/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/26/nicaraguan-reporter-flees-the-country-to-avoid-being-murdered/#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:13:34 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=61853 GenevaLunch.com NICARAGUA – The director of the Nicaraguan El Nuevo Diario newspaper, Francisco Chamorro, said threats against reporter Silvia Gonzalez has made her flee to the US to avoid being murdered. Gonzalez said the threats began after she wrote stories about the death of  a former Contra rebel who fought Nicaragua’s government in the 1980s and [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/26/nicaraguan-reporter-flees-the-country-to-avoid-being-murdered/feed/ 0 Nicaragua’s last landmines go: Central America landmine-free http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/22/nicaraguas-last-landmines-go-central-america-landmine-free/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/22/nicaraguas-last-landmines-go-central-america-landmine-free/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:26:32 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=43910 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Central America has become landmine-free, thanks to the elimination of all known landmines in Nicaragua, two representatives of its government told a working session of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention Tuesday 22 June. “After two decades of work, Nicaragua is proud to announce that we have completed clearance of all known [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/22/nicaraguas-last-landmines-go-central-america-landmine-free/feed/ 0 Breakaway Abkhazia deserts Georgia phone code http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/18/breakaway-abkhazia-deserts-georgia-phone-code/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/18/breakaway-abkhazia-deserts-georgia-phone-code/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:30:58 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=31777 GenevaLunch.com The breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia began to use Russia’s international direct dialling phone code, +7, Sunday 15 November, instead of Georgia’s, +995, in a further break with Georgia. Russia and Georgia fought a war in July over South Ossetia, another breakaway region in Georgia. “The old codes will work until Jan 1. Then they [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/18/breakaway-abkhazia-deserts-georgia-phone-code/feed/ 1 Honduras ex-president vows to return to country http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/24/honduras-ex-president-vows-to-return-to-country/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/24/honduras-ex-president-vows-to-return-to-country/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:42:05 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=22915 GenevaLunch.com Honduras’ ousted president Manuel Zelaya is in neighbouring Nicaragua at the head of a caravan of vehicles set to cross the border near El Progreso, Honduras. He has said he hopes the soldiers guarding the border will lay down their arms and recognize him as their president. The de facto government in Honduras imposed a [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/24/honduras-ex-president-vows-to-return-to-country/feed/ 2 Ousted Honduras president wants to return home http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/30/ousted-honduras-president-wants-to-return-home/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/30/ousted-honduras-president-wants-to-return-home/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:55:04 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=21412 GenevaLunch.com A defiant Manuel Zelaya, until recently president of the Central American nation of Honduras, told a meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Nicaragua 29 June that he would return home this week. The Honduran military had bundled Zelaya onto a plane to Costa Rica early the previous day. US President Barack Obama [...]

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