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MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Sept. 2 -- A devastating drought and plummeting coffee prices have driven Nicaragua into one of its worst economic crises in years, bringing scenes of hunger, malnutrition and ...
How to experience Nicaragua’s coffee culture, one sip at a time. Sample fresh brews, try your hand at picking beans and roam the cloud forests and volcanic peaks of northern Nicaragua’s coffee ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega’s government has closed seven radio stations owned by the Roman Catholic church this week, as well as two other outlets serving the largely ...
Plummeting world coffee prices have meant the end of jobs for hundreds of thousands of coffee pickers. In Nicaragua the crisis has reached desperate levels. Without work, coffee pickers are ...
Starbucks sources its coffee from more than 30 countries in the three major growing regions of the world. The company's breakfast and house blends come from Latin America. And their popular Pike ...
In Nicaragua, coffee farmers are slashing fertilizer purchases just to make ends meet. In Guatemala, growers are diluting nutrients to stretch scarce supplies. And in Costa Rica, producers are ...
SAN CARLOS, Nicaragua – The recent media scandal over the shifting borders of Google Maps on the Nicaraguan-Costa Rican frontier is nothing but “foolishness,” according to former guerrilla leader Edén ...
With climate change threatening crops in many parts of the world, Nicaragua is turning to a robust variety of coffee bean to protect one of its key exports. The appropriately named robusta coffee ...