Founding members of the Deutsche Club in Nicaragua  1901 When one thinks about foreign powers that have changed the course of Latin Amer...

In Nicaragua, there is a direct correlation between skin tone and income level.  The lighter your skin tone, the richer you are, the dark...

Bluntness would seem to come naturally to Nicaraguans.  I once heard, on a bus, a passenger call out, “Hey, piggy,” to a plump vendor, who t...

Birth names, on the whole, are interesting cultural indicators.  They can reflect entrenched cultural values (as in the prominence of Biblic...

The bus stopped near a dirt path that veered off the Panamerican highway.  Up the dusty road stood a small community, similar to others one...

A warm night, a full moon wearing a scarf of clouds.  A large stack of donated books. Cigarette in hand, I look through the titles, like ...

The morning is hot.  The sun rises and stares down at the women sweeping their part of the sidewalk in front of their houses.  It rises, an...

The teaser for the news report was: “The Nicaraguan Mike Tyson?” Was it a report on the rise of a promising but temperamental young Nica...

They reach out and grab you as you walk down the streets.  Their faces strained, their eyes squinting, their lips dry, their mouths stretch...

I wake up suddenly, for apparently no reason.  I toss and turn a little bit, finally ending up laying on my back.  I close my eyes, hoping t...