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NICARAGUA: CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS
Spanish/Nat
Nicaraguans are celebrating Christmas in the midst of an economic crisis.
75 percent of the population lives below the poverty line and unemployment is skyrocketing.
Still, people in this Central American nation are not...
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NICARAGUA: TEENAGE PROSTITUTION EMERGES AS A GROWING PROBLEM
Managua, Nicaragua, September 3, 1996
1. Various of prostitutes on street
2. Socorro Gutierrez, her mother and a social worker leaving hospital
3. Socorro and her mother getting into the old bus where they live
4. SOUNDBITE: Socorro
5....
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NICARAGUA: MANAGUA: CUBA'S FOREIGN MINISTER ROBERTO ROBAINA VISIT
Spanish/Nat
Cuba's foreign minister Roberto Robaina is in Nicaragua on his whistle-stop tour of states potentially allied to Cuba's fight against a U-S embargo.
Robaina arrived in Managua on Thursday fresh from talks with the Dominican...
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Military at border, Micheletti addresses rally, attorney general
El Espino (close to Honduras' border with Nicaragua)
1. Wide Honduras Customs Office, on border
2. Sign (Spanish): Customs El Espino
3. Parked trucks
4. Wide shot Honduras Customs Office and soldiers outside
5. Various of soldiers...
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Arrivals, photo op, comments from Ecuadorean and Nicaraguan presidents
1. Mid of security officials
2. Wide of media at gathered in press area
3. Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, arriving at summit
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Rafael Correa, Ecuadorean President:
"We hope that this kind of warlike behaviour...
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Reaction to apparent election win for Ortega
1. Various shots of street scenes
2. Wide shot of street with large sign reading: "Vote to work" and a picture of Daniel Ortega
3. Various shots of people getting onto a bus and waiting for buses
4. Various shots of people people riding...
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Nicaraguan President arrives for two-day official visit
1. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other Iranian officials waiting for Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega's plane at Mehr Abad International Airport
2. Ortega walking down plane steps, zoom out
3. Ahmadinejad and Ortega waving...
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Ex-president eyes 2011 presidential run after court overturns corruption conviction
1. Zoom in to former Nicaraguan president Arnoldo Aleman with his wife
2. Mid of photographer
3. Close-up of Aleman
4. Various of Aleman speaking to foreign journalists during news conference
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Arnoldo Aleman, Former...
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Sandinista leader Ortega makes final bid for votes before election
31 October, 2006 - Matagalpa
1. Wide of Daniel Ortega stage
2. Mid of Ortega greeting the crowd
3. Close up of little girl at rally
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Daniel Ortega, Nicaraguan Presidential Candidate for the Sandinista Front...
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Survivors begin cleaning up debris after Hurricane Felix, aid
Krukira
1. Medium shot of sea with devastated village in the background
2. Mid of Miskito Indians passing in rowing boat
3. Pan of debris from destroyed homes and uprooted palm trees
4. Wide shot of residents gathering wood
5. Various...
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Rescuers use ropes in attempt to reach miners trapped by underground
Rescue efforts to reach freelance gold miners trapped inside a collapsed mine in northern Nicaragua were continuing on Friday.
Rescue crews and fellow miners used ropes to enter the mine, hoping to deliver food and water to the trapped...
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NICARAGUA: HURRICANE MITCH AFTERMATH: FLOODING
Spanish/Nat
As Hurricane Mitch moves away from Central America towards Mexico, aid workers are left searching for casualties in the wreckage.
The powerful storm has killed an estimated seven-thousand people across
Central America, more...
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NICARAGUA: ARNOLDO ALEMAN DECLARED WINNER OF OCTOBER ELECTION
Spanish/Nat
Nicaraguan Presidential candidate Arnoldo Aleman has been officially declared winner of the October 20th election.
The Supreme Election Council announced the final results Friday after a vote recount requested by the...
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Zelaya talks to reporters, border briefly opens for trucks, body of dead supporter
Ocotal, Nicaragua - July 26, 2009
1. Crowd surrounding ousted President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Manuel Zelaya, Ousted President of Honduras:
"What are some president's saying? With all due respect to them,...
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NICARAGUA: POLICE STORM FOREIGN MINISTRY TO CLEAR PROTESTERS
Spanish/Nat
In Nicaragua, police have stormed the Foreign Ministry to clear the building of dozens of students who seized a Cabinet minister and two diplomats.
It's the latest of a series of protests by students who want the government...
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NICARAGUA: FLOODING CONTINUES TO CAUSE DISEASE (2)
Natural Sound
As Nicaragua begins the long process of repair, the latest threat to the people is disease.
Approximately 200-thousand children are in danger of contracting
dengue fever, cholera and conjunctivitis.
A total of around 82...
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SYND 19 7 79 PRESIDENT HERRERA GIVES PRESS CONFERENCE ON FALL OF SOMOZA
President Luis Herrera Campins of Venezuela arriving at his palace and giving a news conference.
1. ms Herrera arrives by car at palace and enters past press
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): mcu Herrera speaks to press
Film: Rev - Sound: Mag Trk...
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Ousted president of Honduras makes second trip to border area, sbites
1. Wide of motorcade transporting ousted Honduras President Manuel Zelaya driving along street ++MUTE++
2. Various of Zelaya arriving in jeep accompanied by Nicaraguan police officers
3. Zelaya getting out of the car surrounded by media...
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NICARAGUA: MANAGUA: ECONOMIC SITUATION
Spanish/Nat
Nicaragua's dire economic straights has forced many to scratch out a living by extracting pieces of steel rods from the ruins of buildings.
Nicaragua is one of the poorest countries in Latin America, second only to Haiti....
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NICARAGUA: FUAC TAKES PART IN PEACE TALKS WITH GOVERNMENT
Spanish/Nat
One of the last remaining rebel groups in Nicaragua could be about to lay down its arms.
But the troops belonging to the Frente Unido Andres Castro (FUAC) say they will only disarm if the population they protect in northern...
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NICARAGUA: FORMER PRESIDENT ORTEGA DENOUNCES ELECTION RESULT (1)
Spanish/Nat
Former Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega has denounced the results of the country's October 20th elections after conservative Arnoldo Aleman was confirmed the official winner on Friday.
Addressing a mass rally of supporters,...
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Drought and flooding cause hunger crisis in Central America.
Matagalpa
1. Wide shot of Matagalpa town
2. Lines of farmers waiting for food to be distributed
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maria Quintero, victim of drought and hunger
"There is nothing to eat, one works but there is nothing that can be...
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NICARAGUA: ARNOLDO ALEMAN DECLARED WINNER OF ELECTION UPDATE
Managua, Nicaragua 8 November 19961. Electoral Council President announcing results - Rosa Marina Zelaya upsound2. Wide shot of people celebrating at Aleman's headquarters3. Two shots Aleman accompanied by Vice-President Enrique...
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NICARAGUA: PRESIDENT ARNOLDO ALEMAN BEGINS HIS 5 YEAR TERM
Spanish/Nat
Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Aleman begins his six-year term on Friday amidst bitter political wrangling.
Just a day earlier, tensions were rising among lawmakers over Parliament's new directive.
Opposition candidates - led...