Word: ricas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...next tour took him to the Russian city of Samara. There, aside from "drinking like mad," Gaucho learned something about xenophobia and racism. "For me the color is not a problem," he says in the mostly present-tense English he picked up from a former teammate from Costa Rica. "Africans had a problem [in Russia] and I had a problem because I was with the African guys." He adds: "I have some stories to tell...
...right on both counts. Over the last 10 years I have lived in Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, North Carolina and Wellesley, and I feel the safest in Nicaragua. Actually, Wellesley first, then Nicaragua. But the point is, I've always felt safe here. Most Nicaraguans have embraced tourism and foreign investment as the new economic motor for the country. My experience is that people here are mostly friendly, open and quick to befriend Americans...
...McCandless decided on election night to sell his dream home and leave the country, after the first vote returns showed Ortega poised for victory. Less than a week later, he had sold his home at a fire-sale price and left for Costa Rica...
...There are an estimated 3,000-plus Americans living in Nicaragua, though there are no reliable statistics because many are here on a tourist visa, or part time. A lot of U.S. expats came here via Costa Rica or another nearby foreign-retirement country, looking for a place where they could stay one step ahead of the real estate boom. And property prices in colonial towns such as Granada, and in beach areas like San Juan del Sur - where some 50 development projects have popped up in the last five years - have grown by as much as 300% in three...
...with President Arnoldo Alemán--a right-wing Somoza acolyte who was later jailed for embezzlement--that helped the Sandinistas dominate Congress and the courts. In 2001 a Sandinista judge who had been a high-ranking official in Ortega's first government dismissed charges by Ortega's stepdaughter Zoilamérica Narváez that Ortega had sexually abused her when she was a girl in the 1980s. Ortega denied the charges, but the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said the case had merit. (Ortega's wife and Narváez's mother, poet Rosario Murillo, stands by Ortega...