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Article: Nicaragua announces state of emergency to end energy crisis
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- May 31, 2005
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Nicaragua announces state of emergency to end energy crisis
MANAGUA, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolanos
on Monday ordered a state of economic emergency for 180 days in an
attempt to tide over an energy crisis that has forced a three-hour-a-
day rationing in the supply of electricity in the country.
Bolanos, who announced the measure following a meeting with the
cabinet, said the crisis is due to high fuel prices.
The ...