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Lula, Chavez, Ortega arrive for South American leaders summit
1. Wide of Venezuelan presidential plane
2. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez walking off of plane with delegation, pull out to medium
3. Wide of people gathered around Chavez
4. Close up of Chavez being greeted by indigenous leaders...
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NICARAGUA: HURRICANE MITCH LEAVES LAND MINES UNCOVERED
Spanish/Nat
The recent onslaught of Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua has brought a new threat to the population - landmines.
More than 70-thousand explosives remain in the ground following the countries civil war, and recent flooding has...
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Chavez accuses Colombia and US of plotting "agression"
Caracas, Venezuela - 25 January 2008
1. Venezuela President Hugo Chavez and Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega entering room
2. Wide as listening and standing to national anthems
3. Both presidents at table at news conference
4....
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NICARAGUA: VILLAGERS & SETTLERS IN LAND DISPUTE
Spanish/Nat
More than 240 families who settled on land in northern Nicaragua following last year's devastating Hurricane Mitch are being evicted by local villagers who insist they are taking over their land.
The dispute is threatening...
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NICARAGUA: FORMER NUN AND GUERRILLA BECOMES TOP POLICE OFFICER
Spanish/Nat
A former Nicaraguan nun turned guerrilla has been given one of the highest positions in the land.
Comandante Aminta Granera, now a member of Nicaragua's police force, has been named Chief Of Transit.
Granera says her former...
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SYND 24 6 79 INTERVIEW AND SCENES AT SANDINISTA HEADQUARTERS, PRISONERS HELD
Interview with members of Sandinista provisional government who says he is convinced President Somoza will finally be ousted. Scenes inside the Sandinista headquarters in Managua, and captured government prisoners held in a Sandinista...
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NICARAGUA: EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS STILL LIVE IN SQUALOR 20 YEARS ON
Spanish/Nat
More than twenty years after an earthquake devastated the country, thousands of Nicaraguans still live in squalor.
A group of squatters who have made a wrecked building their home face eviction, as the government plans to...
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WRAP President comments on trial, free trade, Iraq, etc
Washington DC - 28 Feb 2003
1. President of Nicaragua Enrique Bolanos and US Secretary of State Colin Powell come out to pose for photographers, shake hands
2. Set up shot of APTN's interview with President Bolanos
3. SOUNDBITE:...
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Petrocaribe summit with Hugo Chavez and Raul Castro
1. Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and Cuban interim President Raul Castro arriving at opening ceremony of Petrocaribe summit
2. Pull out of Chavez and Castro taking their seats
3. Wide of conference room
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Raul...
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Fruit workers demonstrate at US embassy
1. Various of former banana workers marching to US Embassy chanting (Spanish) "Justice"
3. Pan of demonstrators carrying coffin with sign reading (Spanish) "Nemagon dead" (Nemagon is the popular name for the pesticide DBCP used by Dole...
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El Salvador and Honduras sign a commercial agreement with Taiwan
1. Free Trade Agreement signing ceremony with Chen Ruey-Long, the minister of economic affairs in Taiwan (centre) and Tony Saca, El-Salvadorian President (left)
2. President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya (left) at signing ceremony with Saca...
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Violence erupts as opposition claims election fraud
Managua - 8 November 2011
1. Various of anti-Ortega protesters firing flares and throwing objects
2. Line of riot police on street
3. Various of protesters and fires burning in street
4. Protester firing
5. Various of riot police
6. Wide...
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Police seize $7 million from fake journalists, present suspects
Nicaraguan police on Friday announced they had arrested 18 suspects after nearly seven (m) million Canadian dollars in smuggled cash was found in vehicles driven by a group of people posing as a Mexican television news crew.
The suspects...
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Latin American leaders begin arriving in Santiago
August 16, 2001
1. Dominican Republic plane arriving
2. Dominican President Hipolito Mejia gets off
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Hippolito Mejia, President of the Dominican Republic
"My warmest salutations in the name of the Dominican people...
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Felix sparks flood fears in Central America
1. Wide of man and house on seafront silhouetted against sky
2. Deserted boat on shore
3. Fisherman bailing water out of boat
4. Man clearing debris off the beach
5. Various of man repairing roof of house
6. Young boy walking on...
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Brazilian president vows to help Nicaragua grow under Pres Ortega
August 7, 2007
1. Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva shaking hands with Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega at Managua's International Airport
2. Lula and Ortega watching military ceremony.
3. Medium soldiers
4. Handshake...
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NICARAGUA: FOOD AID ARRIVES TO HELP STRUGGLING VICTIMS OF HURRICANE
Spanish/Eng/Nat
Victims of Hurricane Mitch continue to struggle to survive two months after the disaster.
In Nicaragua, desperately needed aid - much of it promised by the government - has failed to reach devastated areas.
Emergency aid...
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Supporters of deposed president Zelaya gather at border
1. Various of protesters supporting deposed President Manuel Zelaya blocking road
2. Various of men sitting on trees blocking road
3. Police presence and protesters holding flag of Honduras
4. Protesters with flags
5. Protesters...
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NICARAGUA: RATS THREATEN HARVEST
Spanish/Nat
A plague of rats in northern Nicaragua is threatening to destroy the year's harvest.
The government has sent representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture along with experts to the region to try and find ways of reducing...
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NICARAGUA: SANDINISTA LEADER DANIEL ORTEGA APPEARS IN COURT
Spanish/Nat
Sandinista leader and former Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, appeared in a criminal court in Managua on Monday.
Ortega invoked parliamentary immunity against sexual abuse charges levelled against him by his stepdaughter...
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Former leader comments on recent protests, calls for reconciliation
Dubai - April 16, 2009
1. Ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arriving for interview
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Thaksin Shinawatra, former prime minister:
"If I were to go back now I think it would add to more riots, more chaos sorry,...
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SYND 29 8 78 TROOPS CONTROL STRIKERS IN MANAGUA
The Nicaraguan government carried out large scale arrests in an a effort to offset growing opposition to President Anastasio Somoza Debayle, already the target of one abortive military coup.
ABC News item.
Film: Rev - Sound: Mag SOF -...
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NICARAGUA : HILLARY CLINTON 5 DAY TOUR OF LATIN AMERICA
English/Nat
Hillary Clinton has been given a warm welcome in Nicaragua.
The First Lady is on a five day tour of Latin America.
She was greeted by the President of Nicaragua, who described Mrs Clinton's visit as a symbol of the...
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NICARAGUA: CAMPAIGNS END FOR GENERAL AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
Spanish/Nat
Candidates in Nicaragua's general and presidential elections on Sunday are wrapping up their campaigns.
Liberal candidate Arnoldo Aleman and the leftist Sandinista candidate Daniel Ortega are neck-to-neck in the most...