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...

Environment
12.05.14

A Catastrophe for Nicaragua’s Great Lake

Carlos F. Chamorro
from Confidencial

Eighty years old, with more than a dozen books on national geography and natural resources to his name, he is the most authoritative voice in the country on environmental issues. Jaime Incer Barquero, former Minister of the Environment and...

Environment
10.19.14

The Great Lake in Danger, Photo Slideshow

Carlos Herrera
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...