Nicaraguan Unions to March to Support Government
NSCAG News | on: Monday, 25 April 2011
Nicaragua's biggest trade union federation, the FNT, has called a march this Friday to celebrate the achievements of the Sandinista government and to mark International Workers Day. Jose Antonio Zepeda of the ANDEN teachers union, and the leaders of the CST-JBE industrial workers union and the FETSALUD health workers read morePolls Place Sandinistas in the Lead
NSCAG News | on: Saturday, 16 April 2011
An early poll carried out in Nicaragua by the New Century polling consultants has placed the FSLN in the lead. The poll was carried out between April 8th and 10th in 750 towns and villages across the country and consisted of a simulated vote cast in secret by 3000 people read moreParliament Approves Budget Reform
NSCAG News | on: Wednesday, 13 April 2011
The Nicaraguan National Assembly approved a 1.6 billion Cordoba increase in social spending last Thursday thanks to the country's budgetary surplus. The sum is equivalent to over £44 million and is equal to 6% of the government budget for 2010. According to Ivan Acosta, the Vice-Minister for the Economy, the read more