Nicaragua's Exports Increase Significantly

[Judi Lynn]

Nicaragua's Exports Increase Significantly

Nicaragua's exports reached US$653.9 million during the first four months of 2010, which represents a 31.8 percent increase.


WASHINGTON, DC, May 12, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The One-Stop Shop for Exports (CETREX, for its acronym in Spanish) recently reported that the value of Nicaragua's exports reached US$653.9 million during the first four months of 2010, which represents a 31.8 percent increase in value as well as a 28.67 percent increase in the volume of exports during this period.

The growth in export value and volume is due mainly to an increase in the use of cultivated land, as well as an augmentation in international prices of products like sugar cane, gold, coffee, petroleum and bananas.
CETREX also stated that the United States continues to be the main destination of exports from Nicaragua (30.3 percent), followed by Venezuela (10.6 percent) and El Salvador (10.5 percent), which altogether buy more than half of Nicaragua's products (51.4 percent).

The source also noted that gold coffee is Nicaragua's leading export product, followed by beef. Income generated by coffee exports amounted to US$152.1 million in the first four months of 2010, 68 percent more than the US$90.4 million registered in the comparable period of 2009, due to higher production and better prices.

Beef exports totaled US$92.4 million during the same period of this year, exceeding the US$66.2 million sold in the same period of 2009, representing an increase of 36 percent.

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[protocol rv]

1. And I bet those exports come from private firms

They don't have the poor results Cuba does with its nationalized agriculture, do they?

[Peace Patriot]

2. And there you are, protocol rv, with your often irrelevant point--

in this case to dis Cuba.

May I remind readers that Nicaragua is run by LEFTISTS who are CLOSELY ALLIED with Chavez in Venezuela (leftist), Morales in Bolivia (leftist), Correa in Ecuador (leftist) and other LEFTIST governments and their leaders including Cuba's!

And when one of these leftist governments succeeds at something--Venezuela doubling high school and college enrollment, or putting away $50 billion in cash reserves, or Bolivia's leftist government DOUBLING Bolivia's gas revenues, or, in this case, Nicaragua's leftist government increasing Nicaragua's exports, Protocol rv quickly tries to change the subject--to dis some other leftist target.

And does so with no evidence or facts ("And I bet those exports come from private firms...")--just kneejerk Milton Friedmanism.

[Billy Burnett]

5. Poster seems to have something against Cubans in Cuba.

Never stops at the smears and unsubstantiated accusations.

:hi:

[Peace Patriot]

3. Thanks for posting this info! It's greatly appreciated!

I was wondering how Nicaragua and its leftist government are faring. We can probably presume that they are doing good things to improve the lives of ordinary people, and to assert Nicaragua's sovereignty as well as cooperating with other countries in the ALBA alliance, since we don't hear about them in the corpo-fascist press. But it's good to see evidence of the success of government policies AND of the success of the ALBA trade alliance.

It's interesting that the coup government in Honduras quit ALBA just before their "martial law" election of a rightwing government, which they want the world to believe is legitimate. They didn't leave quitting ALBA to chance. They wanted to be sure of it, likely because that was one of the prices of U.S. support of their coup. (Privatizing the telecommunications industry was likely another one--as well as continuation of the corrupt, murderous, failed U.S. "war on drugs"--i.e., the Pentagon ensconced in military bases and port facilities in Honduras.) The labor unions in Honduras reported that the coup government looted the ALBA funds--funds contributed by workers--before they quit the alliance. So typical of the rightwing, there and here. Loot, plunder and destroy. It's good to know that governments like that of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Evo Morales in Bolivia, Rafael Correa in Ecuador, and others, are fighting U.S. corporate domination of their countries, and are doing well, both financially and as to empowerment of the poor majority--so long disregarded and oppressed by local rich elites in cahoots with the U.S. and our corporate masters.

Nicaragua--dramatic increase in exports!

Bolivia--doubling of Bolivia's gas revenues (to $2 billion) by tough negotiations (aided by Chavez government advisers) with the multinationals. The new revenues will fund social programs, such as a small pension for the elderly poor, schools and health care. Foiled a Bushwhack attempted coup. Kicked the U.S. ambassador and the DEA out the country. Passed a new Constitution which, among other things, legalizes coca leaf growing and use (ancient Indigenous medicine).

Ecuador--passed a new Constitution enshrining Mother Nature's (Pachama's) right to exist and prosper apart from human needs and desires, by a big majority of the votes, and also included equal rights for women and gays; and kicked the U.S. military of the country--long desired by most Ecuadorans. Correa also survived a Bushwhack attempt to draw Ecuador and Venezuela into a war, back in March 2008.

Venezuela--a success story in so many ways, from greatly improving Venezuela's oil profit cut, to fund social programs, to cutting poverty by half and extreme poverty by 70% and doubling high school and college enrollment--as well as their gift to the world of greatly increased government funding for the Venezuela children's orchestra program--one of the best classical orchestras in the world--a program that is now training 400,000 mostly poor children to play classical music. All of this progress and more is due to the Chavez government's tough negotiations with the oil multinationals and striking much better deals for Venezuela than previous governments (which colluded with multinationals) and general good management of Venezuela's finances and economy.

I have by no means mentioned all of the accomplishments of these LEFTIST governments. I just wanted to highlight a few, to indicate how little our people ever hear of these things and to point to the constant barrage of lies and propaganda that we do hear. As one of the coup generals in Honduras said, the purpose of their coup "was to prevent communism from Venezuela reaching the United States" (--quoted in a report on the coup by the Zelaya government-in-exile). Our corporate rulers don't want us to even hear about such "communist" ideas as funding education and health care with oil revenues, in a fair public/private split of the profits. The coup general no doubt sees himself standing astride Central America blocking the "red tide" from hitting our shores. Too bad he can't do that to BP's oil spill! There has been no one in power here trying to prevent rampant "capitalism" from reaching and destroying the Florida/Louisiana coastline, fisheries, seas, wildlife and livelihoods of various kinds. We could have used some of that kind of prevention.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Yes, the pattern you mentioned at the beginning was used previously, when the U.S.

(Ronald Reagan, the right-wing loon) demanded that if there were to be a truce with Russia, they would be required to terminate ALL their financial, political dealings with Cuba.

The Russian leader actually went along with that brutal, offensive, primative maneuver, pitching Cuba directly into a national crisis from which it only started healing sometime in the 1990's, after reshuffling their priorities, and implementing totally new methods for producing almost everything.

We've seen underhanded power plays like that before. Remember Mireya Moscoso, Panama's President was forced to allow the Cuban idiot terrorists, who had been caught in Panama setting up the bombing of a Panamanian auditorium where President Fidel Castro was scheduled to speak, an auditorium which would have held thousands, to be held in a Panamanian prison. Right after they were booked, the police suddenly announced some of the evidence had been removed from the evidence room, and the evidence was actually the devices needed to initiate the explosion. All they ultimately claimed to have in there was the actual explosive material , so the charges on which they could be tried had to be reduced!

Moscoso was a close friend of the Bushes. She waited until the last day of her Presidency, and pardoned the Miami Cuban "exile" terrorists, including Luis Posada Carriles, who had already killed many other people in previous explosions including an in-flight mass murder on a Cubana air liner in October, 1976. Then she called the Cuban American National Foundation (which has sponsored acts of terror against Cuba, Cuban people, raids upon Cuba, murder of Cuban diplomats, etc.)in Miami and told them what she had done for their terrorists, then moved, herself to Miami immediately!

Another sneaky play accomplished just under the wire. It's a very recognizable as their truly dirty, underhanded way of doing business. If something clean happens, done above board, by the books, non-destructive, transparent, then it's something ennacted by center or left people, never the right. That's why they have to assassinate leaders, use crooked vote processing methods, use filthy constant psychological warfare against the well being of the majority of people on earth.

If they really allowed things to evolve correctly, to work for the better of the human race, they'd NEVER be elected. People don't really like them. They are dirty people inside, treacherous criminals. Greedy. Ruthless, dishonest.

Healthy people have a basic sense of duty toward society, toward their fellow man/woman. That's missing in rightwingers.