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Aeroplaza Mall - two-story building that will have 56 stores and which will cost $ 6 million, completed before the end of the year.

The new shopping center will be located across from Managua International Airport, adjacent to the Hotel Las Mercedes.

The building will measure 11,000 meters square and the goal is to catch the arrival of customers from other parts of Nicaragua and residential areas on the highway north of the capital.

http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/sucesos/289005-repatriaran-cuerpo-de-can...

Malcolm Thomas Porter.

Police and experts determined there was no abnormality in death abroad.

Porter was a retiree who came to Nicaragua four years ago, visited Esteli, fell in love with the climate and the hospitality of its people, was living in that city in a rented house for four months.

http://www.laprensa.com.ni/2013/06/11/departamentales/150309-delincuente...

Invasion Robbery

Aimed at reducing or preventing risk, the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (MTI) has produced a New Construction Primer. The official said that the primer is available to the general public and that it includes specifications of materials and recommendations on how to build in different areas of the country as well as new building systems that have been approved by this institution. 8,000 copies in Spanish and 400 in Miskito have been printed and an English version is available in a digital format.

The Ministry of Finance has announced a new system for the importation of tax exempt products. As of June 3rd, they will be able to speed up the process by using the Modexo system (Módulo de Exoneraciones) which is a system of validation of tax exempt goods into the country. The system has been on trial at various customs agencies and will go live country wide on June 3rd. (In fact, it will be the only way to import tax exempt goods).

http://online.wsj.com/article/AP2d85093df69045018c7eb1dcf07ff98a.html

Liberty Reserve allowed users to open accounts using fictitious names, including "Russian Hacker" and "Hacker Account." An undercover investigator was able to register using the name "Joe Bogus" and the address "123 Fake Main Street" in "Completely Made Up City, New York," and then conduct transactions he recorded as "ATM skimming network" and "for the cocaine."

The Minister of the Interior, Ana Isabel Morales, confirmed the capture of an American fugitive.

Lawrence Scott Groeser, who identified himself as Jaime Todd in Nicaragua and who posed as the son of a Nicaraguan mother.

According to the Minister of the Interior, were able to identify the subject when he was trying to negotiate a Nicaraguan passport from Immigration. After his capture, was referred to the Directorate of Legal Aid.

He will be deported to the United States in the early hours of tomorrow.

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The idea of going from New York to San Francisco via Nicaragua doesn't sound logical, even though you could do it (and still can) by only spending 12 miles, or 20 kilometers of that journey out of a boat and on land!

We hear a lot on this site about lawyers, here is a good story from END today.

The lawyer and notary public Fabiola Ninoska Ibarra Gonzalez admitted in a public trial to committing the offense of aggravated theft (aggravated by her position of trust) and is awaiting the verdict of the sentencing judge.

Prosecutors had accused Ibarra of taking U.S. $ 6,500 out of a total of $ 16,500 for the sale of a plot of land located in the municipality of La Trinidad.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22371275

Speaking at a rally in La Paz, the president said there was "no lack of US institutions which continue to conspire against our people and especially the national government, which is why we're going to take the opportunity to announce on this May Day that we've decided to expel USAID".

He then turned to his Foreign Minister, David Choquehuanca, and asked him to inform the US embassy of his decision.

OK, now that I have fyls attention!!

I had some of the famous Quinoa in a trendy place in BC last summer. It was nice but so was the broccoli etc that was in the salad as well.

Today, while drinking my Cebada and thinking it wasn't that healthy, I looked down at a grain of cebada (pearl barley) and thought of Quinoa.

So I looked up cebada - Pearl Barley on a Nutritional Values of Grains & Flours site at http://www.immuneweb.org/lowcarb/food/grains.html and found that it was not as bad for me as I thought. In fact compared to the over priced and trendy Quinoa, it was very good.

HISTORY

Date: April 19th 1990 Event: The nine year Nicaraguan civil war (1981-1990) officially ended.

Date: April 25th 1990 Event: Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was inaugurated as President of Nicaragua for a six year term.

The work will take place this Sunday from six in the morning and for seven hours (1pm)

Affected will be: The central and western sectors of Matagalpa, Barrios Yaguare, La Virgen, San Francisco, El Porvenir, Germán Pomares, Juan Pablo II, Rodolfo López, Palo Alto, Pancasan, Apante, Santos López, Guanuca, 10 de Junio, Habita, Reconciliación, El Cementerio, El Tule, Edmundo Castellón and Manuel Baldizón.

Also:

http://www.ticotimes.net/Current-Edition/News-Briefs/Costa-Rica-medical-...

More than 250 businesses from 15 countries will gather April 24-26 in Playa Herradura, on the central Pacific coast, for the fourth annual International Medical Tourism Conference. The summit, which was introduced Wednesday morning at the Costa Rican Tourism Board (ICT), will feature speakers, presentations and workshops geared toward helping develop the industry.

Early morning numbers on Monday 1st April (April Fool’s Day) were no laughing matter with La Prensa reporting 41 deaths in Nicaragua over Easter Week.

By the afternoon, and after the customary official press conference, ten more deaths had been added to the total. Crime was down 11% with 2,465 incidents reported versus 2,775 last Easter.

Totals (2012 figures are in brackets)

20 died by drowning. (30)

21 Violent Deaths were reported. (22)

10 Deaths were reported on the roads (12) and another 93 (105) were injured.