Word: nicaragua
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...former revolutionary has promised to make Nicaragua, a country that has experienced famine in recent years, the great breadbasket to supply all of Central America and his leftist allies further south. And he's calling on Nicaraguan farmers to rise to the challenge...
...great challenge, our great battle, is to produce food in Nicaragua," Ortega said. "We have to fill Nicaragua with food, even in our yards at home, we have to plant a little bit of beans and corn. This will mean income, and will assure us food... it will allow us to export to international markets, to the rich countries that have money to pay for these products...
...Ortega had earlier signed a food-security pact with his fellow travelers in the ALBA alliance, a socialist cooperation agreement between Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba and Bolivia. ALBA is blaming the food crisis on the "tyranny of global capitalism," and is using the situation as a teaching moment for its regional propaganda campaign...
...ALBA appears to have found a captive audience. During a May 7 food-security summit in Managua involving the ALBA countries and Nicaragua's neighbors in Central America and the Caribbean, various Presidents spoke of the failure of a free-market globalization model promoted by the United States. Even more conservative leaders, such as Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, appeared to side with the leftists leaders, with whom he is normally at odds, in criticizing the values and priorities of the United States. Arias criticized the United States's offer of $1 billion in food aid as insufficient compared...
...Nicaraguan government has said that the region will need to invest $600 million during the upcoming planting cycle that starts this month, though it's not yet clear where that money would come from or how the financing would work. But analysts suggest that of the participating countries, Nicaragua - precisely because of its agrarian backwardness - offers the best conditions for a major boost to regional agricultural output...