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Nicaragua and Mexico Unemployment Rate Drops to 2.7%, the Lowest in America
teleSUR
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June 28, 2025
Banana production in Nicaragua. Photo: X June 28, 2025 Hour: 3:32 pm In May 2025, Nicaragua and Mexico recorded, according to official figures, one of the lowest unemployment rates on the continent, at 2.7%. RELATED: Nicaragua and China Break...
Political Persecution of Nicaraguans Crosses Borders
Havana Times
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June 28, 2025
and is “recurring,” says UN Human Rights Office Exterior of the United Nations Human Rights Council. //Photo: EFE | Confidencial Entry bans and denial of consular services are part of the persecution targeting exiled Nicaraguans. By Confidencial...
Araghchi’s message handed over to his Nicaraguan counterpart
Mehr News Agency
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July 5, 2025
Zare, met with Valdrack Jaentschke, Nicaragua’s Foreign Minister on Saturday. During the meeting, Zare presented a letter from Araghchi, regarding the crimes committed by the US and the Israeli regime against Iran. Earlier, Iranian ambassadors in...
Nicaragua crackdown on Christianity deepens amid political power grab
Christian Today
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June 27, 2025
The Christ of the Mercy statue in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. (Photo: Getty/iStock) A new policy brief released by Open Doors has exposed as a systematic campaign of repression against Christian communities in Nicaragua. The publication of the...
Nicaragua officially requests observer status in the EAEU — presidential envoy
TASS
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June 26, 2025
MINSK, June 26. /TASS/. Nicaragua has officially requested the status of an observer in the Eurasian Economic Union, Nicaraguan Presidential Envoy Laureano Ortega Murillo said at the group’s meeting in Belarus. "Nicaragua has officially requested...
Nicaragua government tied to illegal land invasions in wildlife refuge, documents suggest
Mongabay
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June 26, 2025
Río San Juan Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Nicaragua has suffered a wave of deforestation in recent years, fueled by land deals that allow settlers to clear the rainforest for farming, mining and cattle ranching. Without government support,...
Not All Change Is Progress
The Dispatch
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July 21, 2025
In many circles, especially in left-leaning environments, to call an idea “progressive” today is not to describe it; it is to shield it from critique. It lands as a moral verdict: a declaration that something is newer, therefore better;...
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus M.Ryzhenkov meets with the Special Representative of the Co-Presidents and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus
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26 June 2025 On June 26, 2025 the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, Maxim Ryzhenkov, met with the Special Representative of the Co-Presidents of Nicaragua for investment, trade and international cooperation, Laureano Facundo...
Costa Rica Faces Scrutiny After Murder of Exiled Nicaraguan Officer
Tico Times
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July 4, 2025
The Costa Rican government is facing growing criticism after the murder of exiled Nicaraguan military officer Roberto Samcam, who was shot to death in San José on June 19 in what appears to be a targeted political assassination. Samcam had...
Nicaraguan teenager in Sligo creates prize-winning art inspired by his personal history
Irish Independent
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Seventeen-year-old Rodrigo Collado García and his family have been seeking asylum in Ireland for the past three years. Prior to taking part in The Mary Elmes Prize in Holocaust Students, Rodrigo’s knowledge of the Holocaust was limited. But that...
International trade event coming to Ohio
Northwest Signal - Ohio
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COLUMBUS – An international trade event will take place in Columbus in August, according to a recent announcement from the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA). Food Export-Midwest and Food Export-Northeast are hosting the second annual Summer in...
International community must protect Nicaraguan opponents exiled in Costa Rica
International Service for Human Rights
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Read the joint letter published on 23 June 2025 below: The 46/2 Collective denounces to the international community the assassination of retired Nicaraguan Army Major Roberto Samcam Ruíz, which took place on 19 June in his home in San José, Costa...
Nicaragua Salutes Venezuela on 204th Anniversary of the Battle of Carabobo: A Shared Legacy of Sovereignty and Resistance
teleSUR
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June 25, 2025
Solidarity and sovereignty: Nicaragua salutes Venezuela’s historic victory at Carabobo.Photo:EFE. June 24, 2025 Hour: 10:15 pm On the 204th anniversary of the Battle of Carabobo, Nicaragua honors Venezuela’s historic victory as a symbol of...
Low turnout and an unfair voting system: UK elections ranked in the bottom half of countries in Europe
The Conversation
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July 3, 2025
The UK has historically been held up as leading democracy with free and fair elections. However, our new report shows election quality in the UK is now ranked in the bottom half of countries in Europe. The Global Electoral Integrity Report...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, May 2025
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
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July 3, 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...
Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 7.2.25
Florida Politics
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July 2, 2025
Good Wednesday morning. Less than two years into his first term as a state lawmaker, Miami Rep. Mike Redondo has cemented his spot in line to lead the Legislature’s lower chamber. All 22 members of the House GOP first-year class voted for Redondo...
Building Memory, Documenting the Truth: The Case of Nicaragua’s Confidencial
Global Investigative Journalism Network
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July 3, 2025
Is reporting possible while living under persecution? When you don’t know from where you’ll be attacked, or if you will be discredited, threatened, intimidated, or forced into exile? Where the choices are sometimes as stark as choosing jail,...
President Trump Dropped the MOPs & The World Is on the Brink of Peace
1290 WJNO - Florida
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President Trump Dropped the MOPs & The World Is on the Brink of Unprecedented Peace – Top 3 Takeaways – June 23rd, 2025 - Driven By Braman Motorcars Takeaway #1: Unprecedented Peace It turned out that President Trump’s “two weeks” for additional...
Beyond Electoral Socialism: Why Winning Elections Alone Can’t Ensure Structural Change
It's Going Down
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July 2, 2025
Andrew Lee looks critically at the history of socialist politicians being elected to office. Originally posted to In Struggle. There’s a lot of understandable jubilation at Zohran Mamdani’s upset victory in the New York City Democratic primary for...
Venezuelan media spotlight Vietnam’s two-tier local government system as turning point
People's Army Newspaper
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RadioMundial, a key state-run broadcaster representing the voice of the Venezuelan government and people, aired a detailed segment titled the two-tier local administration: a historic turning point for the people. The report emphasized that the...