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NICARAGUA: SUGAR WORKERS STAGE PROTEST AT PRESIDENTIAL PALACE
Spanish/Nat
Anti-riot police in Nicaragua removed 350 sugar workers on Sunday following a two week protest outside the presidential palace in the capital Managua.
The workers are protesting that they have not received land they were...
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Residents of the Nicaraguan capital Managua were clearing up on Monday after a sleepless night rocked by two strong earthquakes, part of a string of tremors in the region.
Residents of the Nicaraguan capital Managua were clearing up on Monday after a sleepless night rocked by two strong earthquakes, part of a string of tremors in the region.
A magnitude-6.1 quake on Thursday evening has been followed by...
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Nation mourns death of last Sandinista founder
1. Close-up of honour guards carrying coffin of Tomas Borge, last Sandinista founder, to mass in his honour at his funeral
2. Sandinistas at the mass in honour of Borge
3. Various of honour guards carrying Tomas Borge''''s coffin to...
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NICARAGUA: COCKFIGHTING IS MOST IMPORTANT NATIONAL PASTIME
Spanish/Nat
It's one of Nicaragua's oldest traditions, as popular as bullfighting is in Spain and Mexico.
The sport is cockfighting, a pursuit dating back to the Spanish Conquest.
For many it's a national institution and an intrinsic...
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Leaders of Bolivia, Nicaragua and Cuba join Chavez at summit
1. Wide of table at summit
2. Wide of Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, at summit
3. Mid of Chavez speaking
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan President: ++OVERLAID WITH CUTAWAY OF CUBAN VICE PRESIDENT CARLOS LAGE++
"One of...
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NICARAGUA: 19 PEOPLE INJURED IN NEW OUTBREAK OF VIOLENCE
Spanish/Nat
At least 19 people have been injured in a new outbreak of clashes in the Nicaraguan capital.
Pro-Sandinista students clashed with police once again in a battle over university budgets that the government claims is a shield...
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OAS GA opens, comments on Cuba, finance crisis
1. Security outside OAS meeting venue
2. People entering
3. Wide of the main table with OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza, Honduras President Manuel Zelaya, Paraguay President Fernando Lugo among others
4. US Secretary of State...
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Funeral of former resistance fighter and Communist Party leader
San Salvador - 29 January 2006
1. Wide of funeral procession to Metropolitan Cathedral
2. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) NO NAME GIVEN, Shafik supporter:
"We can see it and feel it that Shafik is still present."
3. Wide of crowd watching...
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NICARAGUA: STUDENTS SUPPORTING STRIKING DOCTORS CLASH WITH POLICE
Spanish/Nat
Nicaraguan students supporting striking doctors clashed with police on Thursday in Managua.
At least twenty students were wounded when police used rubber bullets and tear gas to stop the protests.
Two police officers were...
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NICARAGUA: 3 SAINTS ANNUAL FESTIVAL CELEBRATIONS
Spanish/Nat
Nicaraguans are celebrating the month-long festival in honour of Saint Sebastian, Saint Mark and Santiago the Apostle.
The annual festival is a display of colour, tradition and religious fervour.
Every January the southern...
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NICARAGUA: SPAIN'S PRINCE FELIPE VISIT
Spanish/Nat
Spain's Crown Prince Felipe has arrived in Nicaragua following a tour of Honduras to witness at first hand the devastation caused by Hurricane Mitch.
Enormous efforts are under way to reconstruct Central America after an...
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EL SALVADOR: MAFIA ARMS HAUL INVESTIGATION
San Salvador, El Salvador, 29 June 19951.Various general view arms haul.2.Soundbite (Spanish) Hugo Barrera - El Salvador's Defence Minister3.Various of police officers with arms cache.4.Pan of arms lying on ground.5.Soundbite Hugo...
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Heavy rains affect El Salvador
1. Traffic accident on rainy streets
2. Close up accident
3. Close up shattered car
4. Emergency services using megaphone
5. Evacuated children sleeping
6. Flooded streets
7. People repairing fallen wall
8. Woman washing dishes in the...
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Ortega proposes referendum on compensation for US "Contra" support
1. Wide shot Sandinistas and government supporters celebrating 32nd anniversary of the Sandinista revolution in Managua's July 19 Plaza
2. Mid of crowd, Che Guevara flags
3. Various people singing at rally
4. Wide shot rally
5. Close-up...
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SYND 24 9 78 SECRET INTERVIEW AT MANAGUA WITH ANTI-SOMOZA LEADER
The leader of "Combatiendes del Pueblo" (Fighters of the People), hooded for secrecy, speaks in Spanish about new policy of terrorism.
1. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) cu hooded leader speaks to reporter
Question: "who are you?"
Answer: "We are...
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NICARAGUA: REFUGE SET UP TO GET PROSTITUTES OFF OF THE STREETS
Spanish/Nat
A safe place to sleep and sewing lessons are luring young prostitutes off the streets of Managua and -- hopefully -- into a better life.
In the last of a three-part look at the sex industry in Nicaragua, APTV visits a halfway...
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NICARAGUA: MANAGUA: WORK CONDITIONS ARE UNACEPTABLE
Spanish/Nat
The struggle to survive for many Nicaraguans is forcing thousands into underpaid factory jobs exporting cheap goods to the U-S.
Those who work in the industrialised area of the capital Managua include many teenage parent, who...
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SYND 21 6 79 SANDINISTA SUPPORTERS BUILD STREET BARRICADES
Sandinista supporters tearing up the street and loading paving stones on truck, truck into position and stones put into a barricade. Sandanistas behind barricades cleaning guns. Various views of barricades and people around, some with...
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Rescued miners in hospital as search goes on for remaining trapped men
Twenty miners freed from a gold mine in northern Nicaragua were recovering in hospital on Saturday while rescue efforts continued to reach five miners still missing.
The rescued miners were checked by paramedics and taken to a hospital...
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COSTA RICA: CENTRAL AMERICAN LEADERS ARRIVE FOR SUMMIT
Spanish/Nat
Central American leaders began to arrive in Costa Rica on Wednesday in preparation for a summit with U-S President Bill Clinton.
Crowds gathered to greet their arrival as each leader received a personal welcome from Costa...
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NICARAGUA: FORMER PRESIDENT DANIEL ORTEGA MEETS FOREIGN OFFICIALS
Spanish/Nat
Former president Daniel Ortega met with foreign diplomats on Monday to explain his refusal to attend cross-party peace talks.
He also voiced strong sympathy for the hundreds of students who took part in violent ...
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NICARAGUA: MANAGUA: SANDINISTA PARTY DECLARE POLITICAL WAR
Spanish/Nat
Nicaragua's opposition Sandinista Party has declared a 'political war' on the government of President Arnoldo Aleman.
The Sandinistas announced a series of protests to start next Monday to protest the government's economic...
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Preview to El Salvador's upcoming presidential elections
14 March 2009
1. Street of San Salvador, electoral sign on top of building
2. Wide of street, newspapers stall
3. Pan from one newspaper headline reading (Spanish) "Everyone to vote," to another newspaper headline reading (Spanish)...
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NICARAGUA: HUNDREDS ATTEND MASS IN HONOUR OF SOMOZA FAMILY
Spanish/Nat
Hundreds of Nicaraguans participated in a Catholic mass to honour the Somoza family dictatorship which ruled the country for nearly 50 years.
The mass was the first public event involving the Somoza family since their defeat...