Until the 1980s when the Sandinistas launched their literacy campaign, half of the Nicaraguan population was functionally illiterate. |
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The second wave occurred during the early 1980s, when the Nicaraguan government was reorganized. |
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In the 1980s, the Nicaraguan government instituted the first bilingual education programs for native people, taught in the Miskito language. |
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Gonzalez told the students she hoped USAS could pressure the US companies to reinstate fired workers throughout the Nicaraguan maquila. |
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An example of a Spanish-Aztec hybrid word is chibola, the Nicaraguan word for bottled soda. |
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In July 1979, the Nicaraguan Revolution overthrew the dictator Somoza and replaced the dynasty with the Sandinistas. |
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Being of Nicaraguan Dutch-American ancestry I inherited that erubescent, sun-drenched glow and fiery red hair from grandpa. |
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The Nicaraguan tradition of producing utilitarian and decorative ceramics and earthenware continues. |
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One main aim of this plan was to halt the rampant inflation of the Nicaraguan currency, the cordoba. |
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His office wrote bogus editorial pieces under the names of Nicaraguan contras and got them published in the mainstream media. |
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She switched on the kettle and got out the packet of Nicaraguan coffee. |
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Manuel, a shy middle-aged Nicaraguan, works full-time in the fields. |
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We have received messages of support from the Chilean community in Edmonton, the New Brunswick community, the Nicaraguan community in Ottawa. |
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A Nicaraguan flag was placed on top of the body bag and he would recite. |
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In Nicaragua, it is estimated that 80 percent of the funding managed by a sub-set of 155 Nicaraguan CSOs in 2004 came from international sources. |
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The great upholder of laws at home was happy to trash them abroad, whether invading Grenada or mining Nicaraguan harbours. |
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It is estimated that nearly 90 per cent of Nicaraguan co-operatives totally or partially parcelled out their land. |
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Even in Managua, the Nicaraguan capital, the illiteracy rate is very high. |
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It has been more than a decade since he lost the Nicaraguan presidency. |
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Overcrowding was a problem in Nicaraguan prisons, but it was not as severe as in some other Latin American countries. |
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They also hope to mobilize Dalhousie University students, and the general public, and to re-kindle media interest in the Nicaraguan reality. |
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Ms. Vilma Núñez, President of the Nicaraguan Human Rights Centre, feared for her life. |
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And I remember once there was a Nicaraguan Sandinista incursion in Honduras and the Nicaraguans denied it. |
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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has stated his intention to use tourism to combat poverty throughout the country. |
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They engaged in a systematic campaign of terror amongst the rural Nicaraguan population to disrupt the social reform projects of the Sandinistas. |
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Roughly a century after the opening of the Panama Canal, the prospect of a Nicaraguan ecocanal remains a topic of interest. |
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There are roughly 14,000 active duty personnel, which is much less compared to the numbers seen during the Nicaraguan Revolution. |
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Nicaraguan Spanish has many indigenous influences and several distinguishing characteristics. |
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The majority of the Nicaraguan Diaspora migrated to the United States and Costa Rica. |
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The Nicaraguan government guarantees universal free health care for its citizens. |
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The Nicaraguan government provides free health care for all of its citizens. |
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Cumbia dancing has grown popular with the introduction of Nicaraguan artists, including Gustavo Leyton, on Ometepe Island and in Managua. |
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The former Mosquito Coast was established as the Nicaraguan department of Zelaya. |
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Their regime was overthrown by the Sandinista National Liberation Front during the Nicaraguan Revolution. |
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All we have to do is kill the mad-dog Nicaraguan who oppresses our people, calling himself a soldier. |
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The procedure is as follows: the applicant must present himself voluntarily to the DGME or have been arrested at a Nicaraguan frontier post for attempting to enter the country illegally. |
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Witnessing the discrimination of a patriarchal Nicaraguan society against a single working woman inspired me to become an instrument of change in the world. |
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As we come to the end of the sixty-third session, I pay tribute to you, Father Miguel, on behalf of my country, President Ortega and the Nicaraguan delegation, and on my own account for your excellent work over the past year. |
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Despite this display of poverty, Pablo has a soft spot for the country and for the kindness and warmth of the Nicaraguan people whom he refers to as the Nicas. |
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His favourite directors, Ken Loach and Antonia Bird, have cast him as everything from a Glaswegian bus driver caught up in the Nicaraguan civil war to a homicidal vagrant. |
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Lacayo, 67, is the son-in-law of former Nicaraguan President Violeta Chamorro and served in her Cabinet. |
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The charges were denied by Nicaragua, which countercharged that its neighbor was actually the invader of Nicaraguan territory. |
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In the Nicaraguan sugar fields they found rates of CKD in cane cutters and seed cutters – the most strenuous jobs – to be higher than in pesticide applicators, who have greater exposure to agrochemicals. |
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It will indirectly support a large number of Nicaraguan coffee producers by enabling the company to process more coffee beans that are below export grade but can be used to produce instant coffee for sale on the local market. |
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Lynas remembers Nicaraguan folk bands staying as house guests. |
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What sort of audit office twiddles its thumbs while the newspapers flow with stories alleging corruption at the highest levels of government? The answer in each case is: the Nicaraguan sort. |
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The cases of corruption reported by the President of the Nicaraguan Court of Auditors do not specifically relate to funds from the international community. |
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Nicaragua would like to make it clear that it will not cease to exercise its rights in those maritime spaces for the benefit of Nicaraguan fishermen and other workers. |
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The EU wishes to congratulate all parties which participated in the elections for the respect for democratic principles and the adherence to the norms of the Nicaraguan electoral law. |
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Before creating Güises they had worked together for several years promoting seed conservation among Nicaraguan peasants as a means of enhancing bio-diversity and food self-sufficiency. |
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Very early also, the two governments entered into a dialog in connection with the hundreds of anti-aircraft missiles held by the Nicaraguan army and which worried Washington. |
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The Nicaraguan rope pump is based on an ancient design from China. |
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According to the information provided by the Nicaraguan authorities, citizens from all Member States and associated countries are now exempt from the visa obligation. |
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According to a study made by the Inter-American Development Bank, 63 per cent of Nicaraguan children from families where women suffer domestic violence had to repeat at least one school year. |
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Through the Office of Humanitarian Action against Antipersonnel Mines, close to 900 tons of excess, obsolete, or expired ammunition from the arsenals of the Nicaraguan Army were destroyed. |
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In November, they send a newsletter to over 200 people in the Atlantic region, explaining the current Nicaraguan context and the projects supported with the donations collected. |
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Nicaraguan exporters say this commitment includes selling the product outside the mechanisms of Baisa. |
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Maritza Rosales, Consulate General of Nicaragua will be present at the MSAS San Francisco facility to provide information about the status of the Nicaraguan relief effort. |
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Some scholars tend to classify the prehispanic Nicaraguans as marginal Mesoamericans, while others emphasize Nicaraguan originality and cultural independence. |
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Nicaraguan culture can further be defined in several distinct strands. |
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Nicaraguan culture has strong folklore, music and religious traditions, deeply influenced by European culture but also including Native American sounds and flavors. |
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The main concentration of indigenous in Honduras are in the rural westernmost areas facing Guatemala and to the Caribbean Sea coastline, as well on the Nicaraguan border. |
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A long early poem by the Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal, Con Walker En Nicaragua, translated as With Walker in Nicaragua, gives a historical treatment of the affair. |
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