With every new publication Wikileaks just confirms it's now just an agency of the Russian Goverment whose purpose it's to undermine the confidence of the american people in their institutions.
I'm from Nicaragua and this is new to me. But it does not surprise me. The ruling party have made billions from Venezuelan oil. They control the import, distribution and final sale of gas to customers. It's not in their interest to change the energy sources.
Internally there's have been development in renewal energy, but these have been done by investors close to the Government and they mostly sale each watt as it was produced from bunker. This is possible because they own all the energy business in the country.
This kind of actions are important now more than ever for western societies. We have to remember that Russia is committed to destroy democratic institutions using fake news as one of its tools. Using fake news is an old trick to distort reality. In the pass it was done controlling state media or a good part of it. Now is making it into your Facebook feed.
I would like to add that maybe the problem are not the [micro|macro]-loans, but people. Loans are basic bricks for an economic development in any society. Sadly, they can't save a bad business from failure.
So my point is that maybe a poor borrower investing in a bad business will end up poorer. Other scenario, mentioned in the article, are poor people lending money for non productive expenses.
A basic financial advice applies here: Invest in a productive business and try not to borrow money for non productive expenses.
You could also publish on Android or the web and have access to a "the global audience".
Comparing the App Store with 20 years old methods is a fallacy. To be realistic you should compare using the Android/Mozilla/Windows/Web distribution methods.
I could say that the article is written by the average European wannabe-socialist "intellectual". I convince myself of it when I read "luxury buses". This is the typical hate argument of any wannabe socialist.
I'm from Nicaragua. This project is managed as a private business. No one knows nothing except for the president and his family. What the article says are some of thousands speculations. Telemaco and his kinds only repeat what they are instructed to say. Pure bullshit that only dump people believe. Here, most people believe that with this project Nicaragua will become a first world country. But also, here most people are not that bright.
I think that this project is not really about a canal. That's a mouse trap. It's about a possible oil in the atlantic coast what Ortega and Co. are seeking. The treaty that was signed between HKND and Nicaragua gives the right to HKND to appropriate "any land" it may require for the project. Few days later of the singing, a British oil explorer announced a "very possible" presence of oil in the atlantic coast of Nicaragua.
I love when they say "Hands Free permits easy browsing while eating or multitasking, finally bringing an end to the dark era in which a comfortable individual would have to physically move in order to click, scroll, or type.", like if our sedentaries lives where not sedentary enough already.
Trying to sell Node using soft arguments: "Argumento ad populum" and "Argumento ad novitatem", which BTW are fallacies. No technical arguments, no polls, no facts. Just fallacies.
So, if StartCom is removed from trusted CAs you will have to buy a new certificate and spend $$$, something you obviously want to avoid. That's stupid.