Managua Journal: Hold the Mojito and Margarita, Nicaragua Has el MacuÃ¡
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Determined to find a drink to call its own, Nicaragua has selected a national answer to CubaÂs mojito and MexicoÂs margarita: a fruity concoction called el macuÃ¡.
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Pink Martini is a musical cocktail that's being savored these days -- and not just by those Cosmo drinkers.
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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is ready to work more closely with Washington on anti-narcotics initiatives, he told a visiting group of DEA and State Department officials Monday.
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The Mexican border city of Tijuana, mired in drug violence, hopes to recall brighter days this summer by tossing three tonnes of Caesar salad, the dish invented in the town&#39;s U.S. prohibition-era glory days.
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Jack Dainel's parent company snatches up a Mexcian tequila maker.
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ANTIOCH, Calif. - Kim Mayorga was confused when her 2-year-old started making funny faces and pushing away the apple juice he had ordered at Applebee's. The explanation came when she opened the lid of the sippy cup and was hit by the smell of tequila and Triple Sec.
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PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay  - The glitter is back at the Uruguayan peninsula long known as South America's summer playground for the rich and famous -- a Latin version of Monaco or the Hamptons of New York.
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PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua  - The number of people killed when Hurricane Felix tore into the border area between Nicaragua and Honduras this week has jumped to at least 130, a Nicaraguan rescue official said on Friday.
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A monthlong festival called MexicoNow has highlighted the challenges of defining cultural identity.
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WashingtonÂs old cold war nemesis, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, has his best chance yet of returning to power in elections on Nov. 5.
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Not even the sudden on-court appearance of the Spanish equivalent of Morganna the Kissing Bandit late in Sunday&#39;s match between Andy Roddick and Carlos Moya could disrupt
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When Juan Pablo Montoya won last weekend's Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., it was a victory celebrated not only in Montoya's native Bogota, Colombia, but all throughout Latin America.
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It's a tourist paradise, and a drug runner's haven. More than 800 miles of stunning turquoise coastline, used for snorkeling -- and smuggling. What's smuggled mostly is cocaine from South America and bound for the United States.
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Comment is free: Naomi Klein: To those who remember the violent campaigns against Zapatistas, the tensions today feel eerily, dangerously familiar
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PARATY, Brazil  - In this quaint colonial town on  the Brazilian coast, folks like to drink their cachaca neat  from shot glasses called martelinhos, or little hammers, in wry  recognition of the effect it can have on their heads.
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In Managua and lots of other places in Central America, the streets indeed have no name -- at least none that anyone knows.
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By Daniel Carson, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Dec.