The Miskito people, primarily of African-Native ... About 1,000 of the 2,400 people who were living in Francia Sirpi have left for Puerto Cabezas, the capital of the North Caribbean Coast ...

His Miskito title is Wihta Tara ... He is standing on the scrubbed wooden deck of the Puerto Cabezas port. Behind him are dozens of boats, all in harbour because business is so bad. "The lobsters ...

Miskito Indians searching the sea for relatives found him instead, pulling his battered and sunburned body from the water. They then took him back to Puerto Cabezas. On Saturday morning ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Land conflicts between settlers and Miskito Indians on Nicaragua ... Thursday in the coast’s main city, Puerto Cabezas, in preparation for his funeral.

Following the fiasco of Nov. 9 municipal elections on the Pacific side of the country, Miskito political leader Reynaldo Francis ... told The Nica Times this week in a phone interview from Puerto ...

Felix damaged or destroyed 8,000 houses in and around Puerto Cabezas, leaving 18,000 Nicaraguans in shelters, civil defense officials said. Many of the victims were Miskito Indians who had tried ...

Thousands of Miskito, Sumo and Rama Indians went into ... said they were anticipating the arrival of a commission from Puerto Cabezas, the region`s capital, that will register them to vote.

Miskito Indians surround a U.S. air force helicopter bringing humanitarian aid Friday to Sandy Bay in northeastern Nicaragua after Category 5 Hurricane Felix hit the area. Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua?

Bodies of Miskito Indians killed by Hurricane Felix ... The storm, which hit land as a powerful category-five hurricane, ravaged Puerto Cabezas in northern Nicaragua, where howling winds tore ...

Far to the east on the Caribbean coast, a little over an hours flight from the capital of Managua, sits the town of Puerto Cabezas. It's the home of the Miskito culture. The pilot has just ...