Nicaragua Sees Nearly $1 Billion in Remittances from the U.S. in 3 Months



by CHRISTIAN K. CARUZO 29 Apr 2024

The communist dictatorship of Nicaragua saw a growth of nearly 12 percent in the amount of remittance money emigrants sent to the country during the first quarter of 2024, mainly driven by remittances sent from the United States, according to a report published by the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa on Sunday.

According to statistics from the Central Bank of Nicaragua (BCN), remittances sent to the country during the first three months of 2024 totaled $1.14 billion, marking an 11.8-percent increase from 2023’s $1.02 billion in the same time period.

Of the $1.14 billion received in the first quarter of 2024, the report states, $930.7 million came from the United States, representing a staggering 81.6 percent of the total. The increase, according to BCN, means Nicaragua remains the Central American country with the most growth in remittances received.

Since 2023, Nicaragua has experienced a dramatic upsurge in the amount of remittance funding received by locals from Nicaraguan citizens abroad who have either fled or been banished from the communist regime.

Dictator Daniel Ortega turned remittances into a crucial funding resource for the economically-ailing regime.
 

https://www.breitbart.com/latin-amer...-u-s-3-months/

Legal Insurrection by  Mary Chastain Tuesday, April 30, 2024

“Had Plaintiff known that Columbia would not provide an in-person educational free of harassment, Plaintiff would not have chosen to enroll at or pay tuition to Columbia.”

A Columbia University Jewish student identified as C.S. filed a class action lawsuit against the school, claiming it has done nothing to provide a safe environment.

“Plaintiff C.S. brings this lawsuit to hold Columbia accountable for failing to provide a safe educational environment for its students,” according to the lawsuit. “Plaintiff also seeks an emergency injunction, through a motion filed contemporaneously with this complaint, requiring Columbia to enforce its Statement of Ethical Conduct and Administrative Code of Conduct to provide safe and secure access to education free from harassment and discrimination so that Plaintiff and the Class members can safely complete the semester in person with the rest of the student body.”

The anti-Israel…people…have been contaminating Columbia’s campus for over a week.

C.S. provides evidence that the so-called peaceful protesters have targeted and harassed Jewish students:

    Since its formation, the encampment has been the center of round the-clock harassment of Jewish students, who have been punched, shoved, spat upon, blocked from attending classes and moving freely about campus, and targeted by pro-terrorist hate speech–– both verbal and in written form on massive banners and signs––with statements such as: “Death to the Jews”; “Long live Hamas”; “Globalize the Intifada”; “there is only one solution, Intifada revolution” (invoking Hitler’s “final solution” of killing all Jews); “Hamas we love you. We support your rockets too”; “Red, black, green, and white, we support Hamas’ fight”; “It is right to rebel, Al-Qassam, give them hell”; and “go back to Poland” (a not too-veiled reference to the concentration camps where Jews were mass murdered during the Holocaust).

I know you guys are smart, but just as a reminder, “Intifada” refers to attacks against Israelis from 1987 to 1993 and 2000 to 2005.

Al-Qassam is Hamas’s military wing.

The lawsuit states that people have harassed and intimidated C.S. on campus since October 7. Everything escalated after the encampment began on April 18.

C.S. calls out Columbia’s quick retreat from its DEI commitment by allowing these people to target and degrade Jews:

More: https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/04/jewish-student-files-lawsuit-against-columbia-for-failing-to-maintain-a-safe-learning-environment/

Texas Scorecard by  Adam Cahn   | April 29, 2024

Austin’s light rail program could be ‘toast’ due to an allegedly unconstitutional financing proposal.

Austin’s controversial light rail program, approved by voters in 2020, could be null and void due to an allegedly unconstitutional financing proposal.

According to press reports, during a court hearing, proponents of the transit scheme found themselves unable to defend the project’s ability to borrow money. Absent this authority, it is unlikely to continue.

At issue is the convoluted structure of the measure presented to voters in 2020. Designed to evade state limits on debt and borrowing (which seemed like a money laundering arrangement), the measure created a so-called “governmental corporation” called the Austin Transit Partnership. According to the 2020 proposal, the Austin Transit Partnership was supposed to be funded by a one-time increase to the city’s maintenance and operations property tax.

However, proponents of the project lowballed the cost estimate. Combined with Biden’s inflation, this has led to a situation where the Austin Transit Partnership now needs to borrow substantial sums.

Unfortunately for proponents, state law prohibits using maintenance and operations property tax dollars to pay debt for so-called ‘governmental corporations.’ While a second component of the property tax—interest and sinking—could be used to pay debt, that’s not what was approved in 2020.

More: https://texasscorecard.com/local/austin-light-rail-plan-on-ice-following-disastrous-court-hearing/

Florida sheriff's office seizes largest amount of fentanyl in county history, two illegals arrested

Two of the four individuals arrested were in the country illegally.

By Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor
Published: April 29, 2024 1:25pm

With one operation, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office in Florida disrupted a Mexican drug trafficking organization operating in several states. In the process, deputies seized the largest amount of fentanyl in county history at 14 kilograms, or 30.86 pounds – enough to kill one-third of the state’s population.

Two of the four individuals arrested were in the country illegally, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.

“Fentanyl is the drug that is coming from Mexico through an open border … and it’s killing people all over the United States," Judd said at a news conference. “It seems like every time I talk about a fentanyl operation, I'm saying it's the largest fentanyl seizure in the state of Florida. Once again, that's what I'm saying. The seizure of 14 kilos of fentanyl is the single largest seizure in the history of Polk County.”

The two criminal aliens they arrested, Judd said, “didn’t come here to better themselves and their family. They came here illegally to kill people in America with a deadly drug through a porous border that we need to seal off.”
 

https://justthenews.com/nation/state...county-history

And I'm all for resettling Jamal Bowman in Gaza!