[chrramirez]

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.

[thirdsun]

It seems Nicaragua rejected the Paris agreement as it didn't go far enough [1]:

> As world leaders gathered in the French capital in November 2015 to reach an agreement on fighting climate change, Nicaragua's lead envoy explained to reporters that the country would not support the agreed-upon plan as it hinged on voluntary pledges and would not punish those who failed to meet them. That was simply not enough, Paul Oquist argued.

That leaves Syria, which may actually have other problems these days. The US seems to be pretty much alone in this.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/05/31...