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2022-08-19: News Headlines

TeleSUR -HIM (2022-08-19). Aprueban en Nicaragua calendario a elecciones municipales. telesurtv.net En los comicios se elegirán a los miembros de los consejos municipales en los 153 municipios del país centroamericano.

TeleSUR, jaa, MER (2022-08-19). Gobierno de Nicaragua envía buque con alimentos a Cuba. telesurtv.net El Gobierno aseguró que "la embarcación lleva, con el amor del pueblo nicaragüense, alimentos solidarios para las familias cubanas".

_____ (2022-08-18). Nicaragua: Tomabu Community Builds Agroecology And Food Sovereignty. popularresistance.org This past week, I visited the community of Tomabu in the department of Estelí. It is a small campo community with an incredibly curvy and uneven dirt road that leads to the top. Upon arrival, we were warmly greeted by Dolores and Bernardino in their home, where they shared with us that Dolores was born in the community and they have been campesinos/campesinas their entire lives, currently working with 4 manzanas of land, and that the community's main crops are corn and beans | Dolores and Bernardino have one of the ATC's projects behind their home — cama profundas, as they are called in Spanish — a de…

WSWS (2022-08-18). Biden administration agrees arms sales to Riyadh and Abu Dhabi to counter China's growing influence. wsws.org The sales were announced as China's President Xi Jinping prepares to visit Saudi Arabia as early as this week—his first overseas visit since the COVID pandemic—where he is expected to be given an extravagant welcome, in contrast to its low-key reception of Biden in July.

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