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Accused Mexican drug ring posing as media on trial in Nicaragua
World NowThe 18 Mexicans said they were journalists from their country’s main television broadcaster, Televisa. They wore the company T-shirt, and the six vans they drove into Nicaragua bore the orange Televisa logo.... -
U.S. to remove Iranian group Mujahedin Khalq from terrorist list
World NowWASHINGTON -- The small but influential Iranian exile group Mujahedin Khalq will be removed from the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations, a U.S. official said Friday, following a high-priced lobbying campaign claiming the controversial group... -
Local law school helps free man from Central American prison
Fox 5 San Diego ReporterSAN DIEGO - After spending nearly two years in one of the most notorious prisons in Central America for a crime he did not commit, Jason Puracal was set free. Monday afternoon the 35-year-old and his sister thanked the California Innocence Project of San...Tags: Drug Trafficking, Crime, Law and Justice, Healthy Diet, Anderson Cooper, Peace Corps
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'It's a fight for your life': Jason Puracal on being jailed in Nicaragua for 2 years
CNNEvery day in his cell in one of the most notorious prisons in Latin America, an American father wrote a letter to his little boy. Jason Puracal would tuck the papers away, trying to fight the fear that his son might grow up never knowing his dad. "Jabu...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, FBI, Anderson Cooper, Peace Corps, Justice System
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Tacoma man jailed since 2010 in Nicaragua is freed
Q13 Fox News OnlineA 35-year-old Tacoma man who has been jailed in Nicaragua since August 2010 won a court appeal that annuled his conviction and was released from prison Thursday, family public relations representative Brad Chase confirmed. “I can confirm that the...Tags: Public Relations, Prisons, Organized Crime
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Aberdeen: Students heading to Nicaragua for alternative break
Five students from Northern State University are southern bound for Nicaragua on Sunday as a part of an alternative break trip. Along with Bart Carithers, director of student activities, the representatives will spend their time with the Las Mercedes...Tags: Forestry and Timber, Weather Reports, Weather, Trips and Vacations, Forests
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Adolfo Calero dies at 80; tied to Iran-Contra scandal
MEXICO CITY — Adolfo Calero, a former Coca-Cola executive who led the largest anti-Sandinista Contra rebel force in 1980s Nicaragua and served as one of its most articulate lobbyists in Washington, has died. He was 80. Calero died Saturday night in...Tags: Respiratory Disease, Coca-Cola Co., Newspapers, Central Intelligence Agency, Government
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Book review: 'The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry'
Los Angeles TimesThe FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry An Anthology Edited by Ilan Stavans Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 729 pp., $50 Here's the answer to a hypothetical "Jeopardy" query: "Who are Pablo Neruda and, um…?" And now, the question:...Tags: Music, Nobel Prize Awards, Star Sailing, Chile, World War II (1939-1945)
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Charlevoix St. Mary's members heading to Nicaragua on medical mission trip
CHARLEVOIX -- Ten members of St. Mary's Church will be leaving on Friday, May 4, for a Nicaraguan medical mission trip. They will be accompanying experienced delegates from the Gaylord Diocese who have been going to Matagalpa, Nicaragua, since 2004. In...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Education, Trips and Vacations, Health and Medical Professionals
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Teacher returns from Nicaragua
Teacher Pat Kurtz recently returned from a five-week visit to Nicaragua and is now sharing her experience with the magnet students at Boonsboro Elementary School. She spent part of her time there teaching in a school. The students in both...Tags: Human Interest, Education, Relay for Life, American Legion, Arts and Culture
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Switched at Death: Women Buried in Wrong Plots
KTLA-TVWHITTIER, Calif. (KTLA) -- A mortuary mix-up has turned into a contentious lawsuit, after a woman was dressed in someone else's clothes -- and then buried in someone else's casket -- in a cemetery thousands of miles from where she was supposed to be...Tags: Funeral Parlor and Crematorium
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Tomas Borge dies at 81; last living founder of Sandinista movement
MEXICO CITY — Tomas Borge, last living founder of Nicaragua's Sandinista movement and one of its most hard-line enforcers as it battled U.S.-backed forces for decades, has died. He was 81.
In Nicaragua, the government of President Daniel Ortega...Tags: Respiratory Disease, Crime, Law and Justice, Religion and Belief, Pneumonia, Anastasio Somoza Debayle
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