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June 12, 2020 | CLIP, La Voz de Guanacaste
The Dead Hours (Spanish)
Transporters continue to wait at the Costa Rica-Nicaragua border with little access to water, food, and restrooms.
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Nicaragua
August 23, 2019 | Miami Herald
These Migrants Stranded at the U.S.-Mexico Border Share Why They Fled Their Homelands
The Mexican city of Matamoros has become a forced shelter for thousands of immigrants who wait more than a month for a meeting to ask for asylum in the United States.
August 20, 2015 | KPCC
A Look into the Massive Nicaragua Canal Project
Tim Johnson talks to KPCC, Southern California public radio, about his reporting on Nicaragua's transoceanic canal.
June 19, 2015 | McClatchy
Cloaked in Secrecy: Details of Nicaragua Canal Project Remain Hidden. Part 4
It is hard to build an inter-oceanic canal discreetly. Still, Nicaragua's government is taking pains to conceal details about the canal and its corporate backers.
June 19, 2015 | McClatchy
A Vanishing Culture: Nicaragua's Rama Indians Face Peril from Canal and Migrants. Part 3
Cattle ranchers and plans for a massive canal threaten to displace Nicaragua's Rama Indians and other indigenous groups.
June 19, 2015 | McClatchy
Anxious and Angry, Many Fear Losing Homes, Land to Nicaragua Canal. Part 2
Residents of Nicaraguan villages along a proposed canal route fight for preservation, compensation, and recognition of the lives and homes that they've established over decades.
June 19, 2015 | McClatchy
Remaking World Trade? China's Might Driving Plan for Nicaragua Canal
The inter-oceanic canal to be built across Nicaragua represents the largest civil engineering project in history. Tim Johnson predicts the canal's impact on Nicaraguans, nature, and politics.
May 28, 2015 | Pulitzer Center
Timing May Be Right for Nicaragua Canal
Over the last two centuries, promoters from Napoleon III to Howard Hughes have put forth some 70 proposals to build an interoceanic canal in Nicaragua. And now the timing may be right.
May 07, 2015 | Pulitzer Center
A New Interoceanic Canal in Nicaragua: Who Has the Final Say?
The final word on whether the $50 billion inter-oceanic canal for Nicaragua ever gets built could rest with an unlikely but critical role-player in international trade: insurance companies.
May 05, 2015 | Yale Environment 360
Nicaragua Canal: A Giant Project with Huge Environmental Costs
A Chinese businessman wants to build a $50 billion interoceanic canal in Nicaragua. But critics are concerned the project could ruin the environment and spoil Lake Nicaragua, a drinking water source.
November 14, 2013 | Pulitzer Center
Revolution, Religion, and the Consequences of an Abortion Ban
In Nicaragua and El Salvador abortion bans prevent termination of pregnancies under any circumstances, including rape or incest. The governments are ill prepared to offer services young mothers need.
October 01, 2013 | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Fear, Loss and Secrets: Abortion Laws in El Salvador and Nicaragua
At age 16, Ana Luisa was raped. But by seeking an abortion to salvage her life, she became the criminal in the eyes of Salvadoran law, which bans abortion.
Nicaragua's Transoceanic Canal
Colossal. Mammoth. Pharaonic. Those are the words that describe the Chinese-backed proposal to build a 170-mile interoceanic canal across Nicaragua. But can it be built, and, if so, at what cost?
Nicaragua Canal
Nicaragua says a $50 billion interoceanic canal would give the country the economic boost it needs to escape grinding poverty. But environmentalists and scientists say the project is poorly planned.
Maternal Health in Nicaragua and El Salvador
In Nicaragua and El Salvador, a complete abortion ban has led to unsafe abortions and turned doctors into informants. The number of girls under 14 who give birth has increased by 48 percent.
Nicaragua Rewind
Back in power since 2007, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is leading what he claims is a “second phase of the Sandinista revolution.” Some fear Nicaragua is repeating a cycle of social unrest.
July 10, 2015 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Tim Johnson and Brittany Peterson
McClatchy journalists and Pulitzer Center grantees Brittany Peterson and Tim Johnson interview Nicaraguans about the proposed canal that threatens to split the country in two.
June 30, 2015 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Chris Kraul
Writer Chris Kraul traveled to Nicaragua to explore the environmental impact of a new $50 billion interoceanic canal.
August 09, 2012 | Meet the Journalist
Meet Journalist Tim Rogers: Nicaragua Revolution or Repetition
Pulitzer Center grantee Tim Rogers discusses his reporting from Nicaragua, a country once again under the control of the Sandinistas. Is it moving forward or merely repeating history?
September 02, 2015 | General news, Project news
Dirt Poor: Poverty and Water Sanitation
Too often, the people most affected by poor water sanitation are also those least able to address the issue. Industry, government, and entrenched poverty all stand in the way of access to clean water.
April 29, 2013 | General news, Education news
Pulitzer Center 2013 Student Fellows Announced
Nearly two dozen Campus Consortium student fellows undertake reporting around the globe in 2013.
October 12, 2012 | General news
This Week in Review: Supreme Oil Dreams
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting from politics in Venezuela to climate change on the Tibetan Plateau.
August 10, 2012 | General news, Project news, News Points
This Week in Review: All in the Family
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting from Nicaragua's political discord to iPhone photos of ordinary life in Africa.
May 11, 2012 | General news
This Week in Review: Boy Finds Harmony in Juarez
Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting on a clarinetist in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's free-market outlook, and Tariq Mir's dispatch about Salafism in Kashmir.
September 26, 2016 | All Grades
Jewell: Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's "Guernica"
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented from The Pulitzer Center.
September 23, 2016 | All Grades
TPP's provisions on labor laws and human rights
Discuss the potential ramifications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement on labor rights.
June 17, 2016 | All Grades
Funston: Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's "Guernica"
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 "Guernica" with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
March 23, 2016 | Middle School, High School
Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's 'Guernica'
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
October 12, 2015 | All Grades
Museum of Current Crises
This lesson plan outlines a project that allows students the opportunity to connect with a contemporary crisis somewhere in the world.