Teachers from rural communities throughout the South Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAS) who are participating in FADCANIC´s yearly Teacher Professionalization Training Program at the Escuela Normal in Bluefields, took a break from their intense coursework this January 18 to commemorate the birth of poet Rubén Darío (1867-1916). Darío is considered the father of the Latin American modernist movement and as the best-...

Over the weekend of January 7 and 8, national radio station La Primerísima broadcast a series of three reports on the various ways in which the Foundation for the Autonomy and Development of the Atlantic Coast is helping coastal families in the South Atlantic Autonomous Region attain a better quality of life and improve their prospects for more sustainable and environmentally harmonious livelihoods.

The broadcast series was...

“I did not know pirates got sick. Their teeth rot too and if it were not because the people here were not mistrustful when they began to come into the Coast, those pirates would have suffered much more. But the people around here did not turn the pirates aside with the excuse that they were from elsewhere―they sheltered them, they nursed them and parents even accepted that they marry their daughters. I was impressed by that fact. And I...