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- Temporary Protected Status: Current Immigration Policy and Issues
- This report is a brief overview of current policies regarding temporatry protected status (TPS), which is relief from removal under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). It includes information about humanitarian migrants, temporary protected status, other blanket forms of relief, nationalities receiving protections, and issues with TPS, as well as recent legislation.
- GEO Year Book 2007: An Overview of Our Changing Environment
- This publication is an overview of major global environmental issues and policy decisions during the course of 2007.
- Inter-American Convention on Sea Turtles
- This treaty provides the legal framework for member countries in the Americas and the Caribbean to take actions for the benefit of sea turtles
- [News Script: International briefs]
- Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering international news stories in Puerto Rico and Nicaragua.
- [News Clip: Nicaragua]
- Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
- [News Clip: Encounter]
- Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
- Temporary Protected Status: Current Immigration Policy and Issues
- This report is a brief overview of current policies regarding temporatry protected status (TPS), which is relief from removal under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). It includes information about humanitarian migrants, temporary protected status, other blanket forms of relief, nationalities receiving protections, and issues with TPS, as well as recent legislation.
- Nicaragua: In Brief
- This report discusses Nicaragua's current politics, economic development and relations with the United States and provides context for Nicaragua's controversial November 6, 2016, elections.
- [News Clip: Nicaragua]
- Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 6:00 P.M.
- The Politicization of Public Education in Nicaragua: 1967-1994, Regime Type and Regime Strategy
- Understanding how change occurs in lesser developed countries, particularly in Latin America has been the subject of a prolonged theoretical academic debate. That debate has emphasized economics more that politics in general and predictability over unpredictability in the Latin American region. This paper challenges these approaches. Explaining change requires an examination of the politics of public policy as much as its economic dimensions. Second, change in the Latin American region may be less predictable than it appears. Scholars maintain that change in Latin America occurs when contending elites negotiate it. Their power comes from the various resources they possess. Change, therefore, is not expected to occur as a function of regime change per se. This paper considers the treatment of education policy in Nicaragua during the regimes of the dynastic authoritarianism of Anastasio Somoza Debayle (1967-1979), the revolutionary governments of the Sandinistas (1979-1990), and the democratic-centrist government of Violeta Barrios de Chamorro (1990-1996). The central research question is: When regimes change, do policies change? The methodology defines the independent variable as the regime and education policy as the dependent variable. It posits three hypotheses. The right-wing regime of Somoza was expected to restrict both the qualitative aspects and the financing of education; (2) the left-wing regimes of the Sandinistas were hypothesized to have expanded both; and (3) the democratic-centrist regime of Chamorro was expected to have both expanded and restricted certain aspects of education policy. Several chapters describe these regimes' expansive or restrictive education strategies. A comparative analysis of these 26 years demonstrates several variables' effect over time. An OLS regression and a times series analysis specifies the relationship between regime change and percent of GDP each regime devoted to education. Both the statistical and qualitative findings of this study confirm the hypotheses. The study reveals that, as regimes changed, …
- Termination of Temporary Protected Status for Sudan, Nicaragua, Haiti, and El Salvador: Key Takeaways and Analysis
- This report discusses Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations and answers questions regarding the recent termination of TPS for those from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Sudan.
- Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2010: Analysis of Trends and Issues in the Finacning
- This report shows that in spite of the global economic downturn, investment in sustainable energy is still strong.
- Temporary Protected Status: Current Immigration Policy and Issues
- This report is a brief overview of current policies regarding temporary protected status (TPS), which is relief from removal under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). It includes information about humanitarian migrants, temporary protected status, other blanket forms of relief, nationalities receiving protections, and issues with TPS, as well as recent legislation.
- Afro-Latinos in Latin America and Considerations for U.S. Policy
- This report reviews and analyzes the situation, concerns, and activities of Afro-descendants in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking nations of Latin America. It then discusses current U.S. foreign aid programs, as well as multilateral initiatives, that have directly or indirectly assisted Afro-Latinos. The report concludes with a discussion of potential policy options that have been proposed should the United States elect to provide further support for Afro-Latinos.
- Clearing the Waters: A focus on water quality solutions
- This report discusses global water issues and offers a variety of proposals for countering the degradation of freshwater ecosystems for the benefit of public health and the environment.
- Temporary Protected Status: Overview and Current Issues
- This report discusses Temporary Protected Status (TPS) which is offered to nationals of designated countries who due to civil unrest, natural disasters, and armed conflicts cannot safely return home. This report begins by situating TPS in the context of humanitarian responses to migration. Another form of blanket relief from removal--Deferred Enforced Departure (DED)--is also described, as is the historical use of these relief mechanisms. The report then provides data on the countries currently designated for TPS, including the conditions that have contributed to their designation. Past legislation to provide lawful permanent resident status to certain TPS-designated foreign nationals is also described, and the report concludes with examples of activity in the 115th Congress related to TPS.
- [News Clip: Nicaragua Series, Part 4]
- Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
- [News Clip: Nicaragua Series, Part 2]
- Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
- [News Clip: Contras (Nicaragua)]
- Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
- [News Clip: Nicaragua series pt. 3]
- Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
- [News Clip: Nicaragua series pt. 1]
- Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
- [News Clip: Sandinistas]
- B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
- [News Clip: Nicaraguan kids]
- Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
- Central American Politics: A Brief Survey of the Governments and Politics of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicargua, and Panama
- This report addresses politics in Central America in 1969.
- Nicaragua: Political Situation and U.S. Relations
- This report provides background information and political situation of Nicaragua and its relations with United States.
- [View of Lake Nicaragua]
- Photograph of a view of Lake Nicaragua. An individual can be seen rowing a canoe on the lake. A few small patches of land are present on the lake.
- [Building damaged by an earthquake]
- Photograph of a multi-story building that was damaged by the 1972 Managua earthquake. Multiple automobiles are parked in the streets near the building. This earthquake had a magnitude of 6.2 and hit the capital of Nicarauga on Saturday, December 23 of 1972.
- [Cattle walking past a damaged building]
- Photograph of three cows walking down a street, past a damaged building. The building was damaged by the 1972 Managua earthquake. The roof on the majority of the building is missing and some of the brick is exposed.
- [Dock at Lake Nicaragua]
- FotografÃa de un muelle en el Lago Nicaragua. Se ven algunos barcos en el agua. A lo lejos se ve una silueta de montañas. El Lago Nicaragua es el más grande de Centroamérica.
- [Lake Managua]
- Photograph of a view of Lake Managua in Nicaragua. The lake is surrounded by land that is covered in lush greenery. A white building can be seen in the distance on the right side of the image.
- [Busy street in Granada, Nicaragua]
- FotografÃa de una concurrida calle de Granada, Nicaragua. Un carruaje de caballos y varios edificios circulan por la calle. En el lado izquierdo de la calle se ve un edificio con arcos y columnas curvas.
- [Van parked on a road]
- Photograph of a van parked on a road in Nicaragua. The side of the road is surrounded by lush greenery. The van is parked nearby Lake Nicaragua, which is not visible in the photograph.
- [Dirt road in the Port of Corinto]
- Photograph of a dirt road in Corinto, Nicaragua. A row of buildings can be seen on the right of the road with automobiles parked in front of them. On the opposite side of the road, a large metal building, a water tower, and trucks are visible. Individuals are crossing the street and standing near the buildings.
- [Concepción Volcano]
- FotografÃa de la orilla de un lago y el volcán Concepción al fondo. El Concepción es uno de los dos volcanes que forman la isla de Ometepe que se encuentra en el Lago Nicaragua.
- [Digitized Accelerogram and Earthquake Tables]
- Computer printout listings of three data tables (Digitized Accelerogram, Recording Station, and Earthquake) organized alphabetically by country.
- Temporary Protected Status: Current Immigration Policy and Issues
- When civil unrest, violence, or natural disasters erupt in spots around the world, concerns arise over the safety of foreign nationals residing in the United States who are from these troubled places. Provisions exist in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to offer temporary protected status (TPS) or relief from removal under specified circumstances. A foreign national who is granted TPS receives a registration document and an employment authorization for the duration of TPS. The United States currently provides TPS or deferred enforced departure (DED) to over 300,000 foreign nationals from a total of eight countries: El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Somalia, Sudan, and most recently Southern Sudan and Syria.
- War Powers Litigation Initiated by Members of Congress Since the Enactment of the War Powers Resolution
- This report summarizes the eight cases initiated by Members of Congress in which final rulings were reached, which concerned U.S. military activities in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Grenada; military action taken during the Persian Gulf conflict between Iraq and Iran; U.S. activities in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait (prior to the congressional authorization); U.S. participation in NATO's action in Kosovo and Yugoslavia; and U.S. military action in Libya.
- [News Script: Managua Nicaragua]
- Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story during Christmas Eve 1972, where residents of Managua, Nicaragua were killed due to earthquake.
- [News Script: Wise]
- Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Dallas Mayor Wes Wise who scolded the Dallas Times Herald at a news conference.
- [News Script: Skylab Christmas]
- Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Skylab's three astronauts who photographed a partial eclipse of the Sun.
- [News Script: Nicaragua]
- Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
- [News Script: Hughes stocks]
- Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a meeting with Howard Hughes to discuss an offering of stocks.
- [News Script: Dallas symphony orchestra]
- Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Dallas symphony orchestra touring in Central America.
- [León Cathedral in Nicaragua]
- FotografÃa de la Catedral de León en León, Nicaragua. La catedral también es conocida como "Catedral de la Asunción de MarÃa" y "Real e Insigne BasÃlica de la Asunción de la Bienaventurada Virgen MarÃa". La catedral, de estilo barroco, fue consagrada en 1860, y su construcción comenzó en 1747.
- [Large building in the Port of Corinto]
- FotografÃa de un gran edificio en Corinto, Nicaragua. Se puede ver a algunas personas pasando por delante del edificio y bajando por la calle. La calle parece estar mojada y se ven las huellas de los neumáticos de los automóviles.
- [1972 Managua earthquake damages]
- FotografÃa de varios edificios en el lado opuesto de un campo de hierba que fueron dañados por el terremoto de Managua de 1972. En primer plano se ve una carretera asfaltada. Un cielo nublado llena la mitad del encuadre.
- [Earthquake-damaged building]
- FotografÃa de un edificio alto de varios pisos que fue dañado por el terremoto de Managua de 1972. El ladrillo del edificio ha quedado al descubierto debido a los daños.
- [Two horses near Lake Nicaragua]
- Photograph of two horse grazing in a field next to Lake Nicaragua. Utility lines can be seen in the cloudy sky overhead. The field is located along the shoreline of the lake.
- [News Script: Earthquake Funds]
- Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of 23-thousand-dollars relief funds was collected for the victims of earthquake in Managua, Nicaragua which was telegraphed from Dallas.
- [News Script: Quake Funds]
- Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Dallas Mayor who blames the bureaucratic process for the delay in delivery of earthquake relief funds to Nicaragua.