Sentence examples for nicaragua from inspiring English sources

A friend once got a lift from Stonehenge festival in a batmobile, and I rode into a town in Nicaragua on the juddering mudguard of a tractor.

Highlights of the exhibition included a stuffed alligator bearing a tray of drinks – a gift from the government of Nicaragua – and a rhino horn presented by Robert Mugabe – presumably ripped from the animal's head with his own bare hands.

The sugar companies certainly don't appear to be encouraging diagnosis: reports from Nicaragua suggest that workers who test positive are simply fired.

Nicaragua Sugar Estates, one of Central America's largest plantations, has conducted internal studies, and one in 2001 pointed to "strenuous labour with exposure to high environmental temperatures without an adequate hydration programme" as an important factor.

A bridge is being built over the San Juan river, connecting Nicaragua with Costa Rica and, most controversially, work has started on an inter-oceanic canal to rival Panama's, cutting through Lake Nicaragua on a 173-mile journey between the Caribbean and the Pacific.

A small eco-lodge (26-beds) on an organic coffee farm in the mountains of Nicaragua that organises guided jungle treks to see howler monkeys, waterfalls and a butterfly farm.

Journey Latin America has a one-off group tour in May visiting Ometepe island and the Solentiname islands in Lake Nicaragua plus a cruise on the San Juan river.

Snowden praised Venezuela, as well as Russia, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Ecuador for "being the first to stand against human rights violations carried out by the powerful rather than the powerless" and for "refusing to compromise their principles in the face of intimidation".

Aronson – who participated in peace talks to end civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua in the 1990s – underscores that he is not a go-between.

That gives them some reason.Moreover, in December, Nicaragua which has nasty current-account and fiscal deficits, and some hefty tranches of foreign debt falling due in the next two years—hopes to be admitted to the Highly Indebted Poor Countries Initiative and get relief on its debt of $6.3 billion.

Last year Nicaragua and Costa Rica almost came to blows over a border incursion by a Nicaraguan river-dredging party.