topic : Nicaragua
May 2008
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Olympia’s sister city relationship with Santo Tomás, Chontales, Nicaragua, has its roots in the era of the Contra War in the 1980s. It strives to engender peace and heal the effects of U.S. aggression and economic oppression through people-to-people exchanges and community development.
The Thurston-Santo Tomás Sister County Association collaborates with the Committee for Community Development (CDC) in Santo Tomás to help sustain multiple community projects: its intent is to support self-determination and self-sufficiency for the Nicaraguan people. Over the years there have been many . . .
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May 2008
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Griselda Escobar of the Ninth Community Delegation from Santo Tomás with Maribeth Wheeler and students from Lincoln Elementary at the 2008 Procession of the Species in downtown Olympia.
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April 2008
by Grace Cox
Simón Bolívar, Ernesto Che Guevara, Augusto Cesar Sandino are but three of the revolutionary heroes of Latin America who held one belief in common – that the people of Latin America are one people. Unity of Latin America, from the southwestern United States to Tierra del Fuego, is the foundation upon which can be built self-determination and freedom from European and US imperialism. Hundreds of years of foreign exploitation, military intervention, revolution and counter-revolution make the statement, “these are tumultuous times in Latin America” a tautology.
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April 2006
by Mark Jaffe
This spring the Thurston Santo Tomás Sister County Association (TSTSCA) will be welcoming our eighth delegation from our sister city in Santo Tomás, Chontales, Nicaragua. Our guests, Rosa Aura Segura, Facunda Zeledón Nuñez, and María Salvadora Gonzalez, will be in Olympia from April 19th until May 11th.
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