Books, Magazines and Newspapers

English-language books, newspapers and magazines are available in Nicaragua.

The Nica Times, a publication of Central America’s leading English-language newspaper, The Tico Times, is the country’s only English-language newspaper, providing in-dept news coverage of politics, environment, business, tourism and human­interest stories every Friday. The paper is sold in various locations in Granada, San Juan del Sur and Managua, and is available on line at www.ticotimes.net. The paper also publishes a biannual tourism and investment supplement in May and November.

Between the Waves is an English-language tourism magazine that is printed quarterly and distributed for free throughout the country. The magazine carries articles on travel and Nicaraguan history. For more information: waves@ibw.com.ni

Nicaragua Tourism & Real Estate Guide is a glossy, quarterly advertisement magazine distributed for free throughout the country. It has articles on real-estate investment couple with attractive photos, as well as current real-estate listings.

The Nicaragua Network (www.nicanet.org) offers weekly online Nicaraguan news coverage, with a social justice slant, based out of New York.

Investment consulting firm Calvet & Associates puts out a new quarterly internet investment newsletter Investment and Tourism Nicaragua (www.rcalvet.com), and San Juan del Sur has its own new quarterly newsletter called El Puente, which is found free of charge in area businesses.

For Spanish readers, La Prensais Nicaragua’s most-widely circulated and reputable daily (selling 34,000-36,000 issues a day) followed by the left-leaning El Nuevo Diario. Smaller publications, such as Hoy, are usually filled with blood and guts.

Bookstores, such as the Maverick Reading Lounge in Granada offer English-language books and magazines, such as Newsweek and People, and The Miami Herald can be found at international bookstores and newsstands in Managua.