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Richard takes action back home in Leicester

Richard takes action back home in Leicester

October 30, 2016

Richard Sieff is a member of the Leicester-Masaya Link Group who joined as a result of visiting Nicaragua through Raleigh International. In this guest blog, he writes about his experiences and his commitment to take ‘Action at Home’. ‘Action at Home’ – I knew the requirement of this vital component of the International Citizen Service programme: raise awareness […]

Category: Latin America, Masaya project updates | Tags: Nicaragua, environment, Masaya

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Under the volcano

May 31, 2016

On my morning walk there is a point from which I can see the sulphurous fumes pouring from the Masaya volcano. On the lip of the crater, although not visible from my viewpoint seven kilometres away, is a large wooden cross. It occupies the pinnacle on which a similar cross was first placed in 1529 […]

Category: Latin America, Central America wildlife | Tags: Spanish conquest, volcanoes, Nicaragua, Masaya

'Meet me under the Ceiba' by Silvio Sirias

Meet me under the Ceiba

September 21, 2015

La Curva is an unremarkable small Nicaraguan town, a few kilometres south of Masaya. I’ve known it for twenty years, and to me its only outstanding feature is a pair of huge ‘guanacaste’ trees, bedecked with epiphytic plants, that stand on the south side of the main road (or stood, I’ve been told that one […]

Category: Latin America, Book reviews | Tags: Nicaragua, Masaya

Drawing water from the original well in Cuadrante 81

Solar-powered irrigation system starts to pump water

March 8, 2015

The ‘Agrosolar’ project, funded by the British embassy, has begun to pump water to irrigate crops right at the start of Nicaragua’s dry season. El Timal is in the almost forgotten area between Nicaragua’s two large lakes, only about 20km from the international airport but with practically no transport connections to the nearest town. Into […]

Category: Latin America, Masaya project updates | Tags: Masaya, solar energy, Nicaragua, climate change

Klaus Meyer in Cuba in 2001
Photo: Werkhof, Darmstadt

He was no ‘Sandalista’

December 11, 2014

What happened to the thousands who came to Nicaragua from North America and Europe in the 1980s, inspired by the Sandinista revolution? A very few stayed, of course, and a number went back to their home countries and began serious solidarity work. Others, soon branded Sandalistas, enjoyed their exotic experience but swiftly moved on to […]

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Fernando González, left, meets with Masaya Mayor Orlando Noguera
Photo: Xochilt Calero Alvarez

Freed member of the ‘Cuban Five’ visits Masaya

November 24, 2014

Fernando González, the second of the Cuban Five to be released from prison, has been in Masaya as part of the campaign on behalf of the other three, who have been incarcerated since 1998. On Saturday afternoon a small room packed with about 300 people saw him receive the freedom of the city from the […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, Cuba, Masaya

Drought hits Central America

Drought hits Central America

August 7, 2014

The government is blaming it on the warming of the Pacific Ocean known as El Niño, while scientists are disputing how much warming has actually occurred. But whatever the cause the drought that has hit Central America and extends south into Colombia is very real. The rainy season should have begun in May, but three […]

Category: Latin America, Masaya project updates, Energy and the environment | Tags: Nicaragua, climate change, Masaya, solar energy

A house in Cuadrante 84, El Timal

A community with origins in the ‘contra’ war

June 17, 2014

A short time after the revolution brought the Sandinistas to power in 1979, Reagan’s US government illegally began to fund the armed resistance in the north of the country, who soon became known as the ‘contras’. The struggle against the well-armed contra and the simultaneous economic blockade severely tested the new government. Although it won […]

Category: Latin America, Masaya project updates | Tags: Masaya, solar energy, Nicaragua

A group from Nijmegen in Holland visit Vista Alegre

Happy views in Vista Alegre

June 12, 2014

Vista Alegre is a small community to the south-west of Masaya, a few kilometres out of town and built around the edge of the Masaya Lagoon. The views of the lake and the Masaya volcano give the place its name (‘Happy View’ in Spanish). But the community is poor and struggles to make a living […]

Category: Latin America, Masaya project updates | Tags: Nicaragua, Masaya, Vista Alegre

Link Group publishes review of its project work

Link Group publishes review of its project work

December 6, 2013

The Leicester-Masaya Link Group has published a two-page review of its project work – with active projects both in Masaya and in Leicester itself.  You can download the review as a pdf here. The link group’s AGM last week, attended by Leicester Mayor Peter Soulsby, had a report from Masaya by Skype which updated members both […]

Category: Latin America, Masaya project updates | Tags: Nicaragua, Masaya

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