Authorities have declared a state of emergency in an autonomous

[nicoli86]

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11-20) 10:28 PST MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) --

Authorities have declared a state of emergency in an autonomous, sparsely populated region of northern Nicaragua, shutting down airports and ports to demand that the federal government fix hundreds of miles of worn-out highways, a government leader said Thursday.

Flights have been grounded at six municipal airstrips and one international airport, businesses have been shuttered, a medium-size port has been blocked, and road traffic has been paralyzed since Wednesday afternoon, government head Juan Saballos told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

All government offices in the Autonomous Region of the North Atlantic were closed with the exception of health and education services, Saballos said. The northwestern region, which borders the Caribbean on one side, makes up one-fourth of Nicaragua's territory. It is home to 200,000 residents of various Indian ethnicities.

Authorities are demanding that the Nicaraguan central government reconstruct and repair 500 kilometers (300 miles) of highways and streets, including 320 kilometers (200 miles) of roadway linking the cities of Rio Blanco, Puerto Cabezas and Waspan.

"The problem is the abandonment we have suffered for years and the lack of equal treatment compared to other provinces in the country," Saballos said. "Now we are totally isolated."

Regional officials have asked President Enrique Bolanos and other government authorities to visit Puerto Cabezas, a medium-size port 375 kilometers (230 miles) northeast of the capital, Managua, and officially order the repair of important roads damaged during the past rainy season, Saballos said.

The autonomous government has asked for and received loans from Denmark and the Inter-American Development Bank for repairs, "but that money is in the hands of the central government and no one has moved a finger" to distribute it, Saballos said.

Bolanos spokesman Joel Gutierrez said the government's first priority is to fix deteriorating roads in the country's northern coffee-producing regions before it turns to the Autonomous Region of the North Atlantic.

Sound like same all bull sh.
time after time they get loans and donations
and again they get the mony expende on them self
(SALARY, BENEFITS, CARS, FUEL, PARTY REUNIONS YOU
NAMED) so there is nothing for the porpuse of the
mony to be expend.

everybody gets a slide of the cake (ministry,
directors, cabinet and the well pay assesors)

thats wy never to get the job done!!!!!


maybe this time jajaja?????????

[nicoli86]

You said it!!
Damn shame too, thats a nice area of the country.
Need to run off the Realestate cons too.