Does anyone know of current events happening in Nicaragua, El Salvador and or Guatemala???

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Câ™¥nejita Câ™¥queta

nicaragua re-elected daniel ortega the guy who is responsible for the countries misery and they are having electricity deficit getting their light cut off for upto 10hrs a day nicaraguans and foreigners are getting robbed daily several times a day according to laprensa.com.ni especially those ridding in taxis or walking! guatemala i dont kno anythng about... el salvador is doing really good business is doing well tourism has made them and estimated $900 million this year their products dianas and boquitas are the top selling snacks in central america also they have a new location were they fix airplanes in san salvador and they will have about 4,000 available jobs also the are fixing the really poor parts of el salvador they are getting an estimated $461 million towards that and so far crime rates went down police and the president elias antonio saca are working hard to get criminals off the streets or to get them to change their life you should visit their news website elsalvador.com

Jose P

A big event for the 3 countries in 2006 was the approval of the Free Trade Agreement with the United States. With this agreement this 3 countries are expecting a growth in their economies.
Politically speaking, Nicaragua recently had elections. The leftist party presided by Daniel Ortega won the presidency. There are a lot of expections of the direction this government will take, taking into account that he was a dictator in Nicaragua in the late 70s, 80s and early 90s with the Sandinista movement (pro comunism).
El Salvador was the first central american country that entered the Free Trade Agreement with the US. At the beggining of the year it started to receive a lot of foreign investment, but things are slowing down since the agreement went into effect in other Central American countries where labor is cheaper (El Salvador since a few years ago has the dollar as its currency). Politically, El Salvador has been governed by the right movement since around 20 years ago, but the left movement is the second largest force, having a large presence in the legislative branch.
Guatemala is starting to receive more foreign investment in this last months since the approval of the trade agreement with the US, due to its privilege position being neighbor with the largest free trade agreement of the world (NAFTA - between Canada, US and Mexico). For the first time in years, tourism has surpassed coffee as its major source of income, growing from last year at a rate of 30%, the highest of Latin America. The board of tourism is expecting 1.5 million visitors this year. Perhaps the most ambitious project for investment in Guatemala is the mesoamerican oil refinery. In one week, major refinery companies of the world will participate in a bid to build an oil refinery that can produce 360,000 barrels of oil per day. In the bid, the company has to decide between Puerto Quetzal in Guatemala and Puerto Armuelles in Panama. This project is the most important project in the central american region after the Panama Canal.

Andrea lilo

there are a lot of things going on in Guatemala, in a lot of aspects, so maybe you can be more specific about what would you like to know, political aspects, social, about the culture, etc. so I can help you to find places to look for or I can send you some things.

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