Monthly Archives: January 2022

2022-01-07: News Headlines

Nan McCurdy (2022-01-07). Letter from Nan McCurdy: Remembering Chuck. orinocotribune.com By Nan McCurdy — Jan 6, 2021 | I continue to be deeply saddened by the loss of Chuck Kaufman. I knew he had health problems, but still, he seemed like someone who would, or should, be with us forever. | I've known Chuck since a visit to the Nicaragua Network office in DC — way back, maybe 87 or 88 — I remember thinking he was very humble at the time. | After that I didn't have much contact with him until the US-sponsored coup attempt in 2018. I wrote a synopsis of what went on over a 24-hour period in May and he asked me to co-edit NicaNotes with him. | From that point on we have published dozens…

Staff (2022-01-07). Envían hacia Nicaragua dosis de Soberana Plus para vacunación pediátrica. cubadebate.cu Un lote de la vacuna cubana anti-COVID-19 Soberana Plus parte hoy hacia Nicaragua, para su uso en la vacunación pediátrica de ese país centroamericano. Así lo informó en la red social Twitter el Instituto Finlay de Vacunas (IFV), desarrollador del inmunógeno y agregó que es un orgullo que los niños nicaragàºenses completen su vacunación con Soberana Plus.

Thom Hartmann (2022-01-07). The Shocking Things the GOP and Trumpians Believe. zcomm.org Is our "reality TV" media up to the task of comparing and contrasting the two political parties, and judging the most likely outcomes of the directions they've chosen?

WSWS (2022-01-06). China's lockdown in Xi'an suppressing COVID-19 outbreak. wsws.org China's actions stand in stark contrast to the disastrous policies of other governments around the world that have allowed the virus, particularly the latest Omicron variant, to run rampant through their populations.

2022-01-08 00:42 | 20:42 EST | jz | 6 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 

2022-01-05: News Headlines

Editor2 (2022-01-04). China Reopens Embassy in Nicaragua, Invites Nicaragua to Belt & Road. orinocotribune.com China and Nicaragua kicked off the new year with a reception and a toast to the official reopening of China's embassy in Nicaragua. | What's more, China's Government Representative in attendance extended an invitation to Nicaragua to "take an active part" and join the Belt and Road Initiative "as soon as possible". | Friday's opening follows the December 9th The embassy's flag-raising ceremony was…

Editor2 (2022-01-04). China Reopens Embassy in Nicaragua, Invites Nicaragua to Belt & Road. orinocotribune.com China and Nicaragua kicked off the new year with a reception and a toast to the official reopening of China's embassy in Nicaragua. | What's more, China's Government Representative in attendance extended an invitation to Nicaragua to "take an active part" and join the Belt and Road Initiative "as soon as possible". | Friday's opening follows the December 9th The embassy's flag-raising ceremony was…

Editor2 (2022-01-04). Rosario Murillo — Remembering Chuck Kaufman. orinocotribune.com By Rosario Murillo, Vice President of Nicaragua — Dec 29, 2021 | We would like to begin this midday address by greeting the family of our dear comrade Chuck Kaufman, who passed away suddenly this morning. Those sudden deaths hurt so much, but after all, they are deaths without suffering for the person who leaves us. | We understand that he passed away while having breakfast this morning, passing to another Plane of Life at the age of 69. In March he would have turned 70. He had dedicated his whole life to fighting for the sovereignty of the peoples—a "good gringo," as President Chavez used to say[mdash…

Editor2 (2022-01-04). Rosario Murillo — Remembering Chuck Kaufman. orinocotribune.com By Rosario Murillo, Vice President of Nicaragua — Dec 29, 2021 | We would like to begin this midday address by greeting the family of our dear comrade Chuck Kaufman, who passed away suddenly this morning. Those sudden deaths hurt so much, but after all, they are deaths without suffering for the person who leaves us. | We understand that he passed away while having breakfast this morning, passing to another Plane of Life at the age of 69. In March he would have turned 70. He had dedicated his whole life to fighting for the sovereignty of the peoples—a "good gringo," as President Chavez used to say[mdash…

2022-01-05 22:58 | 18:58 EST | jz | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 

2022-01-04: News Headlines

Editor2 (2022-01-04). Rosario Murillo — Remembering Chuck Kaufman. orinocotribune.com By Rosario Murillo, Vice President of Nicaragua — Dec 29, 2021 | We would like to begin this midday address by greeting the family of our dear comrade Chuck Kaufman, who passed away suddenly this morning. Those sudden deaths hurt so much, but after all, they are deaths without suffering for the person who leaves us. | We understand that he passed away while having breakfast this morning, passing to another Plane of Life at the age of 69. In March he would have turned 70. He had dedicated his whole life to fighting for the sovereignty of the peoples—a "good gringo," as President Chavez used to say[mdash…

ecns.cn (2022-01-03). China eyes closer friendship, cooperation with Nicaragua: FM spokesperson. ecns.cn China looks forward to closer friendship and cooperation with Nicaragua, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Saturday.

ecns.cn (2022-01-03). China reopens its embassy in Nicaragua. ecns.cn China on Friday officially reopened its embassy in Nicaragua after the two countries resumed diplomatic relations on Dec. 10.

2022-01-04 16:58 | 12:58 EST | jz | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 

2022-01-03: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2022-01-03). China eyes closer friendship, cooperation with Nicaragua: FM spokesperson. ecns.cn China looks forward to closer friendship and cooperation with Nicaragua, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Saturday.

ecns.cn (2022-01-03). China reopens its embassy in Nicaragua. ecns.cn China on Friday officially reopened its embassy in Nicaragua after the two countries resumed diplomatic relations on Dec. 10.

Dave Goulson (2022-01-02). Industrialized Farming Has Unleashed an Insect Apocalypse. truthout.org Most of us are familiar with the story of the passenger pigeon, so numerous in the late 1700s that flocks of billions of birds darkened the sky for hours as they passed. Humans exterminated them in a little over 100 years, the last wild passenger pigeon being shot in 1901. In contrast, few have ever heard of the Rocky Mountain locust, but its story is similar. Once very common, swarms would occasionally erupt from their core range in the eastern Rocky Mountains, spreading eastward across the Great Plains. In 18…

2022-01-03 21:49 | 17:49 EST | jz | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 

2022-01-02: News Headlines

Prof Nicolas Boeglin (2022-01-01). La apertura de relaciones diplomáticas de Nicaragua con China Popular y la ruptura de relaciones con Taiwán: Breve puesta en perspectiva. globalizacion.ca El pasado 10 de diciembre del 2021, de forma conjunta Nicaragua y la República Popular de China anunciaron oficialmente el restablecimiento de sus relaciones diplomáticas: los jefes de la diplomacia de China Popular y de Nicaragua sostuvieron personalmente una reunión…

2022-01-02 15:21 | 17:21 EST | jz | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0