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From the time he was 4 years old, Ches Lacollo, 11, suffered from an abnormal growth on the inside of his right eyelid. The mass obstructed his vision, made reading impossible and so deformed his appearance that, he said, his friends and family avoided looking directly at him. Removing the growth required only a fairly simple surgery. But in Puerto Cabezas, on Nicaragua's impoverished eastern coast, there are few doctors and only basic health facilities. Most surgeries require that the patients fly hundreds of miles across the country to the capital of Managua. But the $100 for the twice-daily flights out of Puerto Cabezas' sole airstrip is more than most local residents can afford.
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Jane Orr is a well-groomed woman: stylish red hair, understated makeup, manicured nails and coordinated outfits. So it is difficult to picture her in Puerto Cabezas, a very poor town on Nicaragua's east coast. The country is the second poorestin the Western Hemisphere, with 50 percent of its population under- or unemployed and many of its children abandoned because their parents can't afford to take care of them. Jane went with 16 others from her church, Believers Church on Peek Trail, to spend her vacation doing mission work at the Casa Bernabe Orphange in July. They took duffel bags of donated items for the orphans with them. While there, they painteda new building and helped to build another, assisted at the local hospital, taught vacation Bible school and played with the children. "...
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Many people in Burlington have wanted to see for themselves what it was really like in places that were at odds with the U.S. government," [PETER CLAVELLE] says. "When the U.S. supported the Contra war against Nicaragua, people here said, 'Let's find out what's actually happening there.' The same was true when Ronald Reagan was declaring the Soviet Union 'the evil empire.' It was also the case with the Middle East," where the U.S. has sided, usually uncritically, with Israel. "It's done now on a more people-to-people basis," [Dan Higgins] says. "The sister-city program really works as a sort of umbrella for whatever interests people have." Higgins himself, for example, has helped locals learn video skills they now put to use on a daily TV program called "BilwiVision." A Johnson State C...
... has forged sister-city relationships with Puerto Cabezas in Nicaragua, Yaroslavl in Russia and Beth...
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Editor's note: Associated Press Writer Olga R. Rodriguez is in the Nicaraguan coastal town of Puerto Cabezas, where villagers and lobstermen caught in Felix's grip described at length for the first time how they survived days in the violent, debris-strewn sea, even being blown into a neighboring country. PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicar-agua - Cecil Clark and Manuel Vendless could see the lights from land, could see safety, when Hurricane Felix's waves picked up their boat, slammed it deep into the ocean and spit it out into the darkness again.
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PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua -- U.S., Honduran and Nicaraguan soldiers searched remote jungle beaches and the open sea Thursday looking for survivors and the dead from Hurricane Felix's rampage. Villagers in canoes helped, paddling through waters thick with fallen trees. Two days after the storm hit, 25 more dead were found, raising the known toll to 65, many of them Miskito Indians who had tried to flee the Category 5 hurricane. Officials believed more dead would be found by teams combing the coast stretching across the Nicaragua- Honduras border.
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PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua -- Doctors treated storm casualties in a makeshift clinic Wednesday after powerful Hurricane Felix flooded their hospital and wrecked villages on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast. The death toll rose to at least 18 with dozens more missing. Far to the northwest, Hurricane Henriette plowed into Mexico for the second time in two days, making landfall shortly before 9 p.m. EDT near the port city of Guaymas with top sustained winds of 75 mph. Seven deaths were reported from the Pacific storm, which hit Baja California on Tuesday.
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Once upon a time in a faraway land, there lived a community whose little ones - though inquisitive and eager - could not read or write because their parents could not afford mandatory school uniforms. Dr. Joan McCracken wishes it was a fairy tale. But with her own hands, the Orono woman has cared for the wide-eyed Miskitu youngsters of Puerto Cabezas, where many roads are unpaved and the houses stand on stilts, on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua.
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PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua - Doctors treated casualties in a makeshift clinic Wednesday after powerful Hurricane Felix flooded their hospital and wrecked villages on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast. The death toll rose to at least 18; dozens were missing. On the Pacific, Hurricane Henriette plowed into Mexico for the second time in two days, making landfall Wednesday night near Guaymas with top sustained winds of 75 mph. Seven deaths were reported from the Pacific storm, which hit Baja California on Tuesday.
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PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua Hundreds gathered Friday on a beach in a remote jungle to mourn the victims of Hurricane Felix and condemn the government for not looking hard enough for survivors. Tensions are rising between residents of the autonomous region hit by the storm and the central government as villagers complain they weren't given enough warning about the monster storm and are getting little aid in its aftermath.
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PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua -- Helicopters clattered overhead and Miskito Indians paddled canoes through a debris-littered sea Thursday, searching desperately for survivors of Hurricane Felix. At least 40 people were reported dead and scores remained missing. Fifty-two Nicaraguans were pulled alive from the sea in neighboring Honduras, and there were reports of bodies floating in the waters, said Carolina Echeverria, a federal lawmaker for the Honduran region.
