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… a prominent arena was smoking. His engagement with the tobacco industry began after a trip to Nicaragua in 1980, where Crosby witnessed the struggles of tobacco farmers. Later that year, he …

… ambassador to Uruguay from 1977 to 1979. In 1979 he was named ambassador to Nicaragua where he helped usher the dictator Anastasio Somoza from power. He left that job in …

… He was arrested for the first time in Chicago in 1984 while protesting CIA involvement in Nicaragua. In the following decades, the Franciscan friar by his count would be arrested more …

… presidential Election Day. Things might be different then. Also, by then three non-signers, Nicaragua, Syria, and the Holy See, might find ways to sign on. Nicaragua said it would go it alone, complaining about no punishment mechanism for offenders; …

… and acknowledge that democracy is indeed a beautiful and difficult struggle. I lived in Nicaragua for a summer during college, and, ironically, it was there that I learned my most …

… ministry — 50 years — in the Philippines; a sister from Nigeria in the U.S.; and a sister from Nicaragua and another from Mexico who serve their communities in Rome. Other panelists are in …

… with the Maryknolls, Survil would give most of the next 25 years of his life in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Guatemala, dispensing the sacraments, offering acts of mercy to … and deported. I was spared, for sure, because I was an American citizen." With nine years in Nicaragua and 12 in Guatemala, he saw close up the violent effects of U.S. foreign policy when it …

… he was serving in the Nicaraguan government, has died. He was 84. D'Escoto died June 8 in Nicaragua, according to an announcement from the headquarters of the Maryknoll Fathers and … had suffered a stroke several months earlier, but his death came "unexpectedly" June 8. Nicaragua's first lady and vice president, Rosario Murillo, told the media of the priest's death, …

… in late Friday. … Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, Maryknoll priest and former foreign minister of Nicaragua, has died at age 84. … We plan to have a more comprehensive look at D'Escoto's life and …

… Maryknoll priest who was suspended from the priesthood in 1984 because he was serving in the Nicaragua government, has died. He was 84. D’Escoto died June 8 in Nicaragua, according to an announcement from the headquarters of the Maryknoll Fathers and … foreign minister, a position he held until 1990, when the Sandinistas lost political power in Nicaragua. D’Escoto was born in Los Angeles, California, on February 5, 1933. Son of a diplomat …

… refrained from signing the Paris Agreement: Syria, which has been wrought with civil war, and Nicaragua, which didn't think the deal went far enough. So far, 147 nations have ratified the …

… during the Reagan administration, which used Honduras as a base for its covert war against Nicaragua. The State Department approved the training of hundreds of Hondurans at SOA in the …

… back in the 1980s when I was on the Quixote Center staff and a group of us were visiting rural Nicaragua. At that time, we were running the Quest for Peace program, which supplied large … of John XXIII at the Jesuit university in Managua. Quixote Center staff often made trips to Nicaragua to check on the progress of the program and to learn about new needs — and the …

… Kari Pohl … I recently returned to live in the United States after six years in Nicaragua, where I had become accustomed to irregular water service — or rather, the regular …

… of Justice ruled that the U.S. had violated the Hague Convention by mining the harbors of Nicaragua and arming and training the Contras. It ordered the U.S. to pay reparations, but the … of the U.S. Capitol with three other veterans to protest the escalation of the war against Nicaragua. Liteky 2_700pxcrop.jpg Charles Liteky, left, and three fellow veterans fasting in … pay fines or restitution, saying he would do so when the U.S. government paid restitution to Nicaragua as ordered by the International Court of Justice. But on balance, Liteky saved the …

… to following the Gospel." Back in the '80s, when Witness for Peace was sending delegations to Nicaragua to support the Sandanista revolution, a delegation was kidnapped by the Contras, the U.S.-armed opposition. Two members of the St. Louis Catholic Worker Community lived in Nicaragua then and were accompanying the Witness for Peace delegation. About a hundred protesters …

… the late 1980s, most women who lived there were fleeing violence and poverty in El Salvador, Nicaragua or Guatemala. At Mary House, I Iearned a balanced approach to serving people who have …

… psychologist, trained in accompaniment. She received novitiate formation in Managua, Nicaragua, and ministered in Chile, the United States, Tunisia and Congo. She has shared her life …

… childhood in Queens, N.Y., to a life of missionary accompaniment with the people of Nicaragua and El Salvador. In many ways, Clarke’s childhood was the typical mixture of piety and … but was delighted to be assigned in 1959 to a Maryknoll mission in the remote town of Siuna on Nicaragua’s Atlantic coast. When the mission was founded in 1944, the sisters dined with …

… responsibility and justice and peace coordinator. She has participated in delegations to Nicaragua, El Salvador, Mexico, Syria and Lebanon. Orzechowski is a friar of Holy Name Province …