Country Archive
Please Allow Me to Introduce Valentin Lopez
Date: 11/13/2006I’m in Nicaragua’s Masaya province, on a pueblo blanco (white village) handicraft hunt with Delia Rueda of IL’s local office in colonial Granada. Delia will act as my translator, and hopefully help me nab a few bargains.
Read OnGateway to Hell
Date: 11/12/2006“The wild pigs will not eat you,” Roberto earnestly assures us. “They just bite you and then run away.”
Read OnNicaragua Uncensored
Date: 11/11/2006Let's send Steenie to explore Nicaragua. What will our Euro-rover think of this even less developed tropical haven on the wrong side of the Atlantic?
Read OnPanic in Nicaragua!
Date: 11/10/2006Ortega won. The mainstream press is running away with the story. People are panicking. Right on cue.
Read OnPresident Ortega?
Date: 11/03/2006Could Ortega win? That's the question of the hour...the one we're asked in these offices dozens of times every day at this point.
Read OnThe Best Spanish Schools in Latin America
Date: 10/17/2006I’ve traveled to several countries in South and Central America to study español, and play tourist; an economical way to vacation abroad.
Read OnRosquillas, the Nicaraguan Cookie
Date: 10/11/2006Every week I make the trip from Lake Apanas to Jinotega in northern Nicaragua to pick up my fix of cookies. Like Italian biscotti, the Nicaraguan rosquilla is designed to be accompanied by a hot cup of java.
Read OnOur Man in Nicaragua Saves You $5,000
Date: 08/14/2006Lake Apanas shimmers in the sun high in the coffee country of the Sierra Mountains in Central Nicaragua. The lake is 12 miles long, and covers 20 square miles. The bass fishing is excellent.
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