Although the dismissal of Alberto Guevara took the business sector by surprise, the interim assumption by the general manager Ovidio Reyes has raised no objections.
Nicaraguan businesses say they will continue to manage their business operations in dollars because they are not prepared to use the Sucre.
"There aren't any business (signed up to) to the Superior Council of Private Enterprise" (COSEP), the most important business association in Nicaragua, who have, at this time, the possibility of using the mechanism of Single Regional Compensation System (sucre)", said the head of the organization, Joseph Adam Aguerri.
Business leaders are hoping that the Central Bank of Nicaragua will continue to maintain its independence from the central government after the departure of Antenor Rosales.
COSEP president, Jose Adan Aguerri regretted the resignation of Antenor Rosales as head of the Central Bank and hopes that the Government aspires to appoint officials who are not "puppets". Aguerri, hopes the new president of this organization, Alberto Guevara, will maintain independence of criteria.
A week after Antenor Rosales declared that international reserves "are not to be managed according to someone’s whims and preferences", he has been dismissed by President Ortega.
While other Central American countries are preparing taxes to combat insecurity, Nicaragua declares that it is not an appropriate option.
The president of Guatemala, Alvaro Colom, proposed to his peers in the isthmus region the creation of specific tax to combat organized crime and the violence it generates.
Part of the investment will be made with a $50 million loan from the BCIE, and the remaining funds will be supplied by the Nicaraguan government.
The new military hospital school, "Dr. Alejandro Dávila Bolaños," will be built on a site measuring 72,336 square meters, where the El Retiro Hospital was previously located. The El Retiro Hospital was a medical center that was destroyed by an earthquake on December 23, 1972.
During a meeting of Governors, IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno announced that the entity will increase its support to countries in the region.
Proceso Digital published on its website: "’At this juncture, we have to lend more and that is our obligation and why we are here,' said the head of the IDB in his opening speech.
Moreno said the IDB is ready to meet this 'obligation' to raise capital to the region but he did not specify the amount.
At the IDB meeting which is being held in Managua, the countries will request to operate with a higher fiscal deficit in their public finances.
Prensa Libre published on its website: "The Nicaraguan Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Alberto Guevara, said that a regional joint position on different subjects will be accorded for presentation at the annual meeting of that organism’s Board of Governors.
John J. Danilovich, president of the CRM assistance program, reported that all subsequent payments will be frozen.
Warnings were given. The US ambassador, Robert Callahan, had warned that they would review the level of economic cooperation for Nicaragua due to the claims of fraud in the recent municipalelections.