Nicaragua in the News

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Rubén Darío: The Inescapable Poet of Nicaragua, the New York Times



The Nation: Why is Nicaragua's Homicide Rate So Far Below That of Its Central American Neighbors?  (from Wikipedia: The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the U.S., and the most widely read weekly journal of progressive political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.)
In the above-headline from the Nation, we see an example of the possessive pronoun "its" and of the spelling rule "i before e, except after c, or when sounding like A, as in neighbor or weigh".

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