Tag: Nicaragua

NOVANEWS By: Tortilla Con Sal Taxi drivers protest against Uber in Mexico City. | Photo: Reuters The clear business strategy of Uber’s investors is to work ruthlessly to gain a monopoly position both within individual countries and internationally. Back in July 2016, New York radio journalist Don Debar, reporting on the Democratic Party Convention in Philadelphia, found that people arriving for the convention in taxis were stopped at the security cordon over a mile from the convention center. From there, they had to get out and walk in the exhausting Philadelphia summer sun in order to attend Hillary Clinton’s preordained triumph. RELATED:Meet the Sex Workers Replacing Cops in Sandinista-Run Nicaragua But passengers arriving with the Uber app taxi service were driv...

NOVANEWS By José Adán Silva, Inter Press Service  Francisca Ramírez, the head of the peasant movement that is leading the fight against the construction of an inter-oceanic canal in Nicaragua, which has made her a victim of harassment by the administration of Daniel Ortega. (Credit: Luis Martínez / IPS) The unequal battle that small farmer Francisca Ramírez is waging against the Nicaraguan government of Daniel Ortega has become so well-known that people are calling for her security and her rights from the political heart of Europe. Who is she and why did the European Parliament order Nicaragua on Feb. 16 to protect her life and rights, as well as those of thousands of peasant farmers in the centre-south of this impoverished Central American country? Ramírez is a 40-year-old indig...