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Fear of Leaving and Not Returning to Nicaragua
The anxiety of a forced Exile Nicaragua has become a prison for many Nicaraguans, who at the same time fear leaving and finding themselves in forced exile. // Photo art: CONFIDENCIAL When traveling outside of Nicaragua, many face the fear of not...

Scientists Unite: Asunción To Host Ibero-American Researchers’ Night 2025
Paraguay is set to become the focal point for the sixth “Ibero-American Researchers’ Night 2025”, an event for scientific collaboration. The event will be held on September 26 and 27 2025 in Asunción, and will represent the most ambitious...

Keller Williams Expands to Singapore
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 16, 2025-- Keller Williams Realty, LLC (KW), the world's largest real estate franchise by agent count, is expanding across Asia. As momentum continues, KW has awarded a new master franchise in Singapore. As of...

The rail industry needs more women engineers
By Jacqueline L. Patterson, Ed.D., P.E., CCM, M.ASCE I wish I’d known earlier in my career what I now understand about recruiting and retaining women — especially women of color — in rail engineering. If so, I would have acted with greater urgency...

DHS Strips Temporary Protected Status From Hondurans and Nicaraguans
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem issued two bulletins on Monday terminating the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of Honduran and Venezuelan nationals in the United States, citing the improved conditions in both countries,...

Trump ends TPS program for Nicaragua, Honduras, angering rights groups
July 7 (UPI) -- The United States has ended federal protections shielding thousands of migrants from Nicaragua and Honduras from deportation, angering immigration and civil rights advocacy groups as the Trump administration continues to remove...

Trump administration rescinds TPS for Honduras, Nicaragua
Under federal law, the administration can grant TPS to a country where conditions preclude its citizens from returning safely, or when that nation can’t “handle the return” of its people adequately, according to the US Citizenship and Immigration...

How Ancient Farmers Engineered the Avocados We Eat Today
Ancient avocado remains in Honduras reveal early domestication practices that may hold keys to the crop’s future resilience. The discovery challenges our assumptions about modern farming and genetic diversity. Credit: Shutterstock Avocado remains...

Not rocket science: Sport managers shocked TT miss NACAC meet due to vaccine card
Sports Jelani Beckles 33 Minutes Ago Tobago athlete Gloria Henry - The National Association of Athletics Administrations (NAAA) has blamed "an administrative oversight" for national junior athletes – all Tobagonians – being unable to attend the...

INETCO and Serfinsa Announce New Technology Alliance to Accelerate Payment Modernization Across Central America
INETCO and Serfinsa Announce New Technology Alliance to Accelerate Payment Modernization Across Central America Serfinsa accelerates payment modernization across Central America with INETCO Vancouver, BC, July 4, 2025--(T-Net)--INETCO, a global...

Nicaraguan national faces multiple charges after extradition from Spain
Hayden O’Byrne United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida | The Florida BarHayden O’Byrne United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida | The Florida Bar Ernesto Ortega Padgett, a Nicaraguan national previously...

Nicaragua and China break ground on landmark solar project to power water access and energy sovereignty
The following report in Telesur notes that Nicaragua, in partnership with China, has inaugurated construction on the country’s largest solar plant to date, powering water systems, cutting energy costs, and deepening South-South cooperation on...
A Nicaraguan View from the Frontlines: Revolution, Reconciliation, and Resistance
[Source: Photo courtesy of Jennifer Aist] “Democracy in the U.S. has never been functional. It’s just in some laws, but it has never been implemented. There’s a huge misinformation campaign going on in the U.S., and media is manipulating people...

Ortega Expels UN Refugee Agency Over Report on Nicaraguans
Nicaraguans participating in a march held in Costa Rica, the country harboring the largest number of Nicaraguan refugees. Photo from archives Far from recognizing its responsibility in this humanitarian crisis, the dictatorship announced that...

Here’s How To Travel To Bluefields, Nicaragua, And What To Do When There
On Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast, where the mouth of the Escondido River and the Caribbean Sea meet, is Bluefields, Nicaragua. It’s the capital of the South Caribbean Autonomous Region in Nicaragua and is home to one of the largest populations of...

Socialist Communes and Anti-Imperialism: The Marxist Approach
“The direct antithesis to the empire was the Commune.” –Karl Marx, The Civil War in France Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, which has gone hand in hand with ruthless assaults on the West Bank, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, and Syria, all of it...

‘The ultimate underdog’: Chelsea named 2025 All-America city for sustainability projects
SUSTAINABILITY WAS THIS YEAR’S THEME for the All-America city awards, given annually by the National Civic League. But environmental awareness is nothing new for Chelsea, one of 10 US communities recognized by the organization on June 29 for their...

Bolivia’s Coca Heartland Becomes a Fortress as Morales Defies Capture
Deep in the coca fields of central Bolivia, Evo Morales has turned his village into a spear-ringed fortress. Declared ineligible to run for president, charged with trafficking, and abandoned by the state, he’s preparing for a political comeback—or...

Why some think the new ‘Superman’ movie is about the war in Gaza
An amateur film critic named Evan gave the new “Superman” movie five out of five stars. Writing on the Letterboxd platform, they praised the film’s “unique visual identity” and called director and screenwriter James Gunn “the best comic director.”...

Crowley Expands Caribbean and Central America Service with Newest LNG Container Ship
Crowley’s newest, LNG-powered containership Tiscapa began its inaugural service on July 10, adding faster, bigger options for timely ocean cargo transport around the US Caribbean and Central America. Like its sister ships in the Avance Class,...