Daily Archives: July 18, 2020

2020-07-18: News Headlines

teleSUR (2020-07-17). Nicaragua: Army Halts 700 Tons Of Drug Trafficking A Year. telesurenglish.net The Nicaraguan Army stopped the trafficking of about 700 tons of drugs in a year, as a result of its retaining wall strategy, according to a report presented by the institution. | RELATED: | General Julio Cesar Avilés, head of the Army, said that drug production in South America is estimated at 3 thousand tons per year, 80 percent of which seeks to pass through Central America on their way to the United States. | "We try to contain a…

teleSUR (2020-07-17). Nicaragua To Celebrate 41 Years Of Sandinista Revolution. telesurenglish.net A leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) stated to Prensa Latina on Friday that the celebration of The Sandinista Revolution's 41st anniversary, on July 19, will take place, but for the first time, there will be no traditional mass rally due to COVID-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | Nicaragua will be full of allegorical music, full of expressions of the revolutionary joy for Sandinismo and the people, bu…

_____ (2020-07-17). Nicaragua: The Revolution Won't Be Stopped. popularresistance.org 2019 was an amazing year in the search for peace in Nicaragua with The Amnesty Law and the promotion of reconciliation between neighbors in every corner of the nation. It was a year of life-giving advances in all aspects of wellbeing: poverty reduction, health, education, gender equity, recreation, culture and infrastructure; strengthened food security, and a new highway that joins Bluefields to the rest of the nation making the first paved transit route from the Caribbean to the Pacific. | And all this despite cruel US unconventional warfare against the Sandinistas that has gone on for decades and reached a peak…

The Canary (2020-07-15). Hancock 'not frankly interested' in Gove not wearing a mask while shopping. thecanary.co Health secretary Matt Hancock has said he is "not frankly interested" in his Cabinet colleague Michael Gove being pictured in a shop without a mask ahead of them being made compulsory to slow the spread of coronavirus.The senior Cabinet Office minister, who had earlier sparked confusion by suggesting face coverings would not be mandatory in shops in England, was photographed uncovered in Pret A Manger despite insisting it was "basic good manners" to wear a mask.His maskless face was in stark contrast to that of international trade secretary Liz Truss, who minutes earlier had left the same store in Westminster wea…