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How Ancient Farmers Engineered the Avocados We Eat Today
SciTechDaily
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July 5, 2025
Ancient avocado remains in Honduras reveal early domestication practices that may hold keys to the crop’s future resilience. The discovery challenges our assumptions about modern farming and genetic diversity. Credit: Shutterstock Avocado remains...
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,...
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...
Screwworm cases cause border closures for livestock imports
El Paso Times - Texas
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New cases of the New World Screwworms in Veracruz, Mexico have caused the U.S. Department of Agriculture to once again close southern borders to livestock days after reopening them. On Tuesday, July 8, the National Service of Agro-Alimentary...
The Media construction of a Threat: Scapegoating the Latinx ...
Modern Ghana
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Historically as well as contemporarily, immigration has been a key and extremely polarizing issue in American political discussion and discourse at all levels of US society. Certain leaders have maintained more open and accepting immigration...
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,...
International demand for pineapple juice grows
Fresh Plaza
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July 10, 2025
Demand for pineapple juice and the growth of markets such as Israel and Dubai are boosting Costa Rican exports, despite production limitations due to weather conditions. According to Álvaro Figueroa, president of the Tropicales del Valle company,...
Nicaragua’s total exports grow 11.57 percent
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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June 25, 2025
According to the Informe Pastran bulletin, which cites a report from the Ministry of Development, Industry, and Commerce, arranged by the General Directorate of Foreign Trade, the increase is driven by key sectors such as raw gold and green...
Everything To Know About Volcano Boarding In Nicaragua
Travel Noire
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June 30, 2025
Picture it. After a grueling 45-minute to one-hour hike up Nicaragua’s youngest volcano, Cerro Negro, you get to reward yourself with the thrill of a lifetime: volcano boarding. Similar to the winter recreational activity of snowboarding and the...
Nicaragua: Anti-Canal Leader Dies under Police Harassment
Havana Times
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June 22, 2025
Octavio Ortega Arana was persecuted until his final day Octavio Ortega Arana, a leader of the anti-canal struggle, in a photo from January 2015. // Photo: Archive | CONFIDENCIAL The peasant leader led protests against the proposed expropriation of...
US Prepares to Combat New World Screwworm Outbreak Using Sterile Flies
Times News Global
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July 11, 2025
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. government is mobilizing to combat an outbreak of New World screwworms, a flesh-eating insect threatening livestock health along the southwestern border. This initiative involves aerial dispersal of sterilized flies to...
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...
A Nicaraguan View from the Frontlines: Revolution, Reconciliation, and Resistance
CovertAction Magazine
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June 26, 2025
[Source: Photo courtesy of Jennifer Aist] “Democracy in the U.S. has never been functional. It’s just in some laws, but it has never been implemented. There’s a huge misinformation campaign going on in the U.S., and media is manipulating people...
Nicaragua Grants Political Asylum to Panamanian Union Leader Amid Protests
Tico Times
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June 19, 2025
The Nicaraguan government announced Wednesday that it has granted political asylum to a leader of Panama’s main construction union, who was facing an arrest warrant for alleged money laundering amid growing protests against Panamanian President...
Nicaraguan national faces multiple charges after extradition from Spain
Sunshine Sentinel - Florida
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June 17, 2025
Hayden O’Byrne United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida | The Florida BarHayden O’Byrne United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida | The Florida Bar Ernesto Ortega Padgett, a Nicaraguan national previously...
Nicaragua and China break ground on landmark solar project to power water access and energy sovereignty
Friends of Socialist China
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June 17, 2025
The following report in Telesur notes that Nicaragua, in partnership with China, has inaugurated construction on the country’s largest solar plant to date, powering water systems, cutting energy costs, and deepening South-South cooperation on...
World News in Brief: Türk speaks on sexual violence, Brazil floods up to date, nicaragues of human rights violations
The European Times
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June 24, 2025
“We do not meet the minimum requirements to prevent women from being reduced to silence and to support their participation and their leadership in … the construction of peace”, Mr. Türk said. 25 years ago, the UN Security advice adopted a...
New Crowley ocean shipping route links Port of Philadelphia and Central America
Marine Log
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June 24, 2025
Written by Nick Blenkey Photo: Crowley Crowley is expanding its ocean shipping services, opening its first-ever route between the U.S. Northeast and Central America. Utilizing Crowley’s new, state-of-the-art Avance class vessels, the five-day...
Crowley Expands International Shipping with Inaugural Route Connecting U.S. Northeast and Central America
Hellenic Shipping News
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June 24, 2025
Crowley, an international leader in logistics, marine and energy solutions, has announced a significant expansion of ocean shipping services with its first-ever route between the U.S. Northeast and Central America. Utilizing Crowley’s new,...
Industry Update: NCBA, PLC Provide Update from Capitol Hill during WSGA summer meeting
Wyoming Livestock Roundup
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June 16, 2025
The third day of the 2025 Wyoming Cattle Industry Convention and Trade Show, hosted by the Wyoming Stock Growers Association (WSGA) in Laramie June 2-4, kicked off with updates from ag agencies and organizations based in the state of Wyoming and...