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"One of the biggest goals of this orchestra is to open it to everybody" La Hacienda ad: "Gracias, Maestro" Nicaragua-born and Costa Rica-raised Giancarlo Guerrero, the new director of the Nashville Symphony, is the star of a popular series of playful ads that take the Maestro beyond the typical symphony surroundings and into Middle Tennessee landmarks like La Hacienda, Tootsies

it’s the fourth of july. tonight, i’ll be hanging out with friends eating large amounts of food and watching people blow things up. we are celebrating our independence.

That what Senator Thad Cochran thought might happen in 1987 when he and Senator McCain were on a diplomatic mission to Nicaragua:

Opened Basante's, father from NicaraguaThe Nashville City Paper published this profile of Luis Fonseca, the executive chef of the elite Nashville City Club. Fonseca's father was born in Nicaragua.

From the profile:“My father put me in with his chefs when I was 17,” said Fonseca, who now serves as executive chef of the venerable Nashville City Club.

But long before then, the career of

Born in SacramentoMexican-American familyGrew up hearing Spanish and answering in EnglishEric Volz, the immigrant from Nashville to Nicaragua who was cleared of a murder conviction in that Central American country in a case that is still not over, told a group of Belmont University students about the Hispanic portions of his autobiography in the context of a media ethics lecture.

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It now looks like my foreign missions experience this summer will be a trip with LEAMIS to Costa Rica in late June / early July. I’ll pass along more details as they become available, and if you’re on my partnership list from previous trips I’ll probably send out a letter soon asking for support. I’ve not been to Costa Rica before, although my first-ever foreign mission

Eric Volz is out of Nicaragua. I heard the news from a friend while eating dinner this evening. Thankful seems such an understatement for how I feel knowing that Eric will be back on US soil soon.

Dane Anthony, Eric's dad, resigned from his position at Belmont University to commit his time and energy to this case. I cannot fathom how much he sacrificed during the last year that Eric was imprisoned. It is not my

Talk radio hosts call for vigilante justice after immigrant's criminal conviction is overturnedThe Tennessean is reporting here that the murder conviction of Nashvillian Eric Volz has been overturned, but that he may remain in the custody of Nicaraguan officials.

Volz, an American immigrant to Nicaragua, was running a bilingual magazine in that country when his ex-girlfriend was murdered late