Nicaragua News Service Published by the Nicaragua Network Education Fund Vol. Hurricane Cesar hits Nicaragua hard. FSLN office in Miami bombed.
Health workers go on twenty-four hour protest strike.
Electoral news briefs. General news briefs. In the early morning hours of Sunday, July 28, Hurricane Cesar blew across the Corn Islands off the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua onto the mainland between Bluefields and Kukra Hill causing massive destruction and flooding. The Chamorro government declared a national state of emergency Sunday as the hurricane swept across the nation affecting virtually all areas of the country. Winds gusting up to 140 kilometers per hour pounded the Caribbean Coast throughout the night causing at least three deaths and leaving more than 20,000 people homeless.