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The Inter-American Development Bank recently approved 2 more projects for Nicaragua.

Risk of Natural Disaster and its Management: This operation will support: (i) The strengthening of municipal planning processes aimed at reducing disaster risk; (ii) strengthening SINAPRED; (iii) the design of selected infrastructure for reducing vulnerability to disaster in priorized municipalities.

I used to hear from Fyl about 2-3 times a day. I have not heard a word for like two months! I don't see anything new from him on here, either. Could someone please put my mind at ease by emailing me the real deal about him at carlchristy@gmail.com?

Thanks!

-Carl

Incredible photo in this small article of what it can do.

http://impreso.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2010/08/28/sucesos/130869

My regular moneychanger warned me today that a number of counterfeit 500 cordoba notes have been circulating lately and that unscrupulous moneychangers are targetting gringos as a way to unload the counterfeits they've ended up with. Then he showed me how to spot a fake.

Before accepting a 500, hold it up to the light up to the light with the metallic strip facing you. Look at the left edge of the note (right to the left of the log cabin Sandino was born in). The note is legit if you see a ghostly full-figure outline of Sandino appear that is not visible in dim light.

Burnaby B.C. fireman friend saw these trucks last week and said they are in excellent shape.

http://www.kamloopsnews.ca/article/20100716/KAMLOOPS0101/307169994/-1/KA...

I'm sure they will be appreciated in Nica.

Interesting to see they are being shipped to Guatemala.

Found at this link http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100713204503AAJsPvY

Title is copy/paste from above. All opinions welcome.

Is this just a one man rant? Any consenus on this?

Tim Rogers Latest:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2010/0825/Nicaraguans-say-US-tur...

On the "Coup" allegations:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnVbLKZFrOc 12 minute video in English. (Note the FSLN flag and the way its just hanging. I just got it in my head that the white letters look remarkably like swastikas at first glance...)

I'm supposed to call a woman at Intur in three weeks and see how things are going. The Intur person we'd dealt with last week reminded Suzanne of a step we'd missed, but told us we could get any of the kiosk lawyers to verify the photocopies and the woman Suzanne picked to talk to had a Word form for the verifications. We set up a production line of staple removal, doing the work, printing, and restapling to get things done and called Intur to see when it closed. Suzanne said that the Intur woman we'd been working with would let us in after hours.

we landed in Managua and got a ride to the makeshift bus lot across from La UCA this was a 20 minute ride from the airport and is very easy to get the hell out of managua fast to catch a express bus to granada. A few days later we ended up in Ometepe for a few days then returned back to granada for water sports on lake Nicaragua at the Marina Cocibolca with Nica Action Sports we got to ski, Kneeboard, Wakeboard with the only jet skis for rent in the whole country. This is a new adventure that just got started.

Friends plan to vist me this winter en route from Palenque and want to know what the trip is like. After looking into it the best advice I can give them is to fly from Mex City to MGA.

Alternatively, by bus it`s about one day from Palenque to a Mexican border town called Tapachula, and then two Ticabus rides (11 hours each) from there to MGA, with an overnight layover in El Salvador. I imagine this would be quite a gruelling trip.

Any opinions, or advice about options I haven`t considered, would be most welcome.