A Legacy of War Unearthed
On November 16, 1998, 12-year-old Bernardo González went for a swim in a pond near Puerto Viejo, in north-central Nicaragua ...
Surviving Mitch
The survivors of last October's devastation in Honduras and Nicaragua have lived through a double hurricane: a four-day meteorological event ...
A Community Response in El Salvador
The wind moved suddenly, shaking the branches of the mango trees. Just a few days before, a wave of humidity—different ...
Post-Mitch Central America: The U.S. Response
Though the mainstream U. S. media stopped reporting the devastation left by Hurricane Mitch a few weeks after the storm ...
Nicaragua’s Structural Hurricane
A hurricane or natural disaster hits two equally populated territories with the same force. Why is it that the human ...
Strange Bedfellows: The Aleman-Ortega Pact
Consensus politics has a bad name in Nicaragua—that is, where "consensus" means divvying up the spoils of government. The Somozas ...
Chiquita’s Brand of Crisis Management
In the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch, business interests—both domestic and foreign—sought to use the crisis to advance their own interests ...
