Word: nicaragua
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Geothermal systems also produce electricity at competitive costs in some locations. They pipe water past pockets of molten rock beneath the earth's crust, creating steam to drive generators. Nicaragua and the Philippines get more than 25% of their electricity from geothermal stations, and Flavin estimates that at least 40 countries have such resources to develop...
...have evidence that U.S. spooks paid him at least $10 million for favors -- a lot more than the $320,000 U.S. officials earlier acknowledged. U.S. censors blacked out large swaths of the brief, but Noriega's defense says he was paid to smooth clandestine U.S. efforts in Argentina and Nicaragua. What's more, he was paid $2 million to care for the shah of Iran. A judge barred the material from Noriega's drug trial, leaving his lawyers without "evidence to explain the source of his income in response to the government's claim of unexplained wealth," the brief says...
...Federal Aviation Administration has forbidden airline companies from nine countries to fly into or out of the U.S., because the FAA says they do not maintain internationally recognized aviation safety standards. The neglectful nine: Belize, the Dominican Republic, Gambia, Ghana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay and Zaire. In addition, airlines from Bolivia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Netherlands Antilles are on the FAA's watch list. The crackdown on foreign air carriers is a result of the 1990 crash in New York of a Columbian Avianca airliner that had run out of fuel...
...often, politics dictate immigration policy," Hernandez said. "In the '80s, we allowed anyone defecting from the Soviet Union in under political asylum while turning away refugees from Nicaragua and El Salvador for being economic refugees...
...NICARAGUA. Despite the transition to a multiparty democracy, the Sandinistas still control security forces, and the contras are itching for a rematch...