PRONicaragua

Nicaragua will be presenting its mining opportunities in this year’s Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) Convention, after its successful participation in the world’s leading mining event in 2012.

“We applaud the Government of Nicaragua’s science-based decision to reopen its market to Canadian beef and pork”, mentioned Ed Fast Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway.

Nicaragua inaugurated the first phase of Guacalito de la Isla, a 1,670-acre, US$120-million low-density, private beach community on Nicaragua’s Emerald Coast created by businessman Carlos Pellas.

Nicaragua was recently featured in the World’s Top 10 Retirement Havens for 2013, published by the Huffington Post and was named one of the hottest travel destinations for 2013 by NBC's Today Show. Here's why:

Nicaragua has one of the most aggressive renewable energy goals in the world — it intends to have 94 percent of its electricity come from renewable energy by 2017.

Nicaragua will soon become the first Central American country to start exporting pitahaya or dragon fruit to the United States.

PRONicaragua recently announced that a U.S. trade mission that visited the country last week has stated their purchase intention of over US$3 million in Nicaraguan agricultural products.

Nicaragua is currently participating in the Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) Offshoring and Outsourcing Summit, whose objective is to promote the development of the outsourcing and offshoring industry in the region.

Millknit Industries, a U.S.-capital textiles company, will begin operations in Nicaragua in 2013, manufacturing fabric for apparel companies established in the country’s free zone sector.

PRONicaragua will be participating in the Regional Summit of the Caribbean’s Investment Promotion Agencies (IPAs) with the objective of exploring strategic approaches for increased collaboration between investment promotion agencies.