Environment
12.05.14

The Great Lake in Danger

Wilfredo Miranda Aburto & Carlos Herrera
from Confidencial

Southwest of the Maderas volcano, where the Rivas coast is a line fading into the distance, Lake Cocibolca’s inmensity is on prominent display: breezes softly comb stretches of water that are seemingly endless. Sonar has marked...

Viewpoint
08.28.14

China’s Nicaraguan Canal

Carlos F. Chamorro

While Nicaragua was once a central concern—indeed, almost an obsession—of Washington, as Sandinistas and Contras seemed to be battling for the soul of the Western Hemisphere, in more recent times our small and quite impoverished country has...