Spain To Offer Nicaragua
$2 Million To Help Fight
Crime
The Spanish government
will provide us$2
million dollars to
Nicaragua to help it
fight crime, officials
said.
The funds will be
provided under an
agreement signed
Thursday, which
envisions the
construction of a modern
laboratory for the
Criminal Investigation
Department of Nicaraguan
police as part of a
2009-2012 action plan
called Safety for
Central America.
National Police Chief
Aminta Granera and
Spanish Ambassador
Antonio Perez signed the
agreement for the
program, launched by the
Spanish Cooperation
Agency for Development.
Such cooperation is part
of the mutual support
pledged by Spanish Prime
Minister Jose Luis
Rodriguez Zapatero and
his Central American
counterparts to
strengthen security in
the region.
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