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Written by Randall Wood
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Wednesday, 28 June 2006 |
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 I was pleasantly surprised to see Nicaragua written up in an unlikely place: Cigar Aficionado magazine. Then again, maybe it's not so unlikely. Nicaragua's been growing great quality tobacco for decades, and the cognoscenti have long admired the rich flavor and full-bodied aroma of Nicaraguan cigars. But it's just the latest in a growing body of literature that has forgotten about Nicaragua's dark years and is looking south with interest for business and for pleasure.
The article is "Under the Volcanoes" by David Savona, and you can find it on page 187 of the June 2006 issue. |
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Tuesday, 27 June 2006 |
 Jim Wyss in the Miami Herald has documented an interesting web site business devoted to helping baby boomer retirees settle into tropical countries like Nicaragua. The Nicaraguan government is indeed eager to foster this kind of retiree-investor interest in the country.
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Monday, 26 June 2006 |
Sandra Scott, writing in GoWorldTravel magazine, is not the only author who has seen tremendous amounts of progress in Nicaragua over the past decade. She and her husband visited in Nicaragua in the mid-1990s when Nicaragua's civil war was still fresh and the process of rebuilding had just begun. Ten years later, she found a lot to like, and even concludes "Nicaragua is on its way to being “the new Costa Rica” — it is perfect for a wedding, a honeymoon or an adventurous vacation featuring smoking volcanoes, pristine beaches, colonial villages, rain forests, artisan markets and friendly people." |
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Monday, 26 June 2006 |
 You know a country has hit the mainstream when a publication like Frommer's has noticed it. But that's exactly what happened in November 2004, when Frommer's wrote "Nicaragua: Unspoiled and Open for Business." Is travel to Nicaragua getting trendy? |
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Saturday, 24 June 2006 |
It’s invigorating and astonishing to see how much economic progress has been made in Nicaragua over not just the eight years I’ve been living in and writing about Nicaragua but over the past two years in particular. The Nicaraguan government gets circumspect credit for some of the legislative reforms that have made this progress possible, but the lion’s share of the praise goes to Nicaragua’s increasingly vibrant private sector which has been responsible for an economic transformation that I find truly stunning. Here are ten things I saw in Nicaragua in January 2006 that tell me Nicaragua is economically better off than it was in 1998 when I first arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer.
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