Nicaragua's English Language Newspaper

NicaNews #18 November 1998 Vol. 2 - No. 5 - 18


Nicaragua Suffers.

Featured Article:

In The Wake of the Mud: Surviving Posoltega
Most of the survivors from the slopes of Nicaragua's Casita Volcano have fled their homesteads, abandoning the mountain that gave them a taste of prosperity and then brutally betrayed them. [More...]

La Pulga: Master In Disaster
His small body outfitted in a khaki uniform with a motley array of patches, his large ears protruding from a balding head, Marcos Zarinana Guadarramo looks like a wizened boy scout, but this Civil Protection Officer from Mexico is not out selling cookies; he is saving lives.[More...]

Refugees Devasteted Beyond Proportion: New Life in Vida Nueva
Walking among the exhausted refugees and the black plastic shelters of the Vida Nueva neighborhood, Tipper Gore, wife of US Vice-President Al Gore, was shocked by what she observed. "I will take the message back to the United States that these people have been devastated beyond the proportion that we could comprehend," [More...]

Orphaned by Mitch: Children of Hope
In the Chinandega Hospital, Norlan Javier lies on a bed cradling a pink balloon. He is one of eight children in the Chinandega department documented so far as having lost both parents as a result of the disaster. The Ministry of Family does not know how many other children like Norlan are scattered about the affected zones.[More...]

Disaster to the Nth Degree
October, the month of the year when more rain falls than in any other month, was particularly vicious this year. Rains had been falling regularly throughout the country, skies were generally cloudy and grey, and people were thinking that the country was nearing the end of one of the best rainy seasons in the last 12 years. [More...]

Mitch on the Coco River: "The River Ate Its Children"
Normally, the indigenous peoples of the Miskito and the Mayangna (or Sumu) who live along the Coco River in the Bosawas Reserve of north-central Nicaragua are in an enviable position. Their lands are some of the most fertile in all Nicaragua. There is also a large, lush forest isolating their farms from the pollution and toxins that farmers closer to cities must deal with. However, with the passing of Hurricane Mitch, these lands became some of the most dangerous places to be in Central America. [More...]

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