Navigating Nicaragua

“How can a poor country like Nicaragua afford to give free health care to its people?” When our daughter was hospitalized with dengue fever, we began to see why Nicaragua makes the choice to look after its people.

Why has food insecurity increased in the U.S. while it has declined in Nicaragua?

In Nicaragua, protagonists are using language that reflects how they see themselves as they become the heroes of their own stories.

The murals depicting Ben Linder’s life tell us a story of revolution, resiliance, and of a legacy that still shines brightly in Nicaragua.

During a time when revolutionary murals were being erased, art bloomed in the secret gardens of Managua.

I can’t take you on my favorite tour of Managua, because its Revolutionary murals - a visual embodiment of what Nicaragua was trying to become in the 1980s - have been erased.

When I moved to Nicaragua 20 years ago, I refused to believe the Food Court at the mall was the only place to be, so I dragged my husband off to find where people were hanging out.

The best views of Managua are from the shadow of Sandino’s silhouette at Tiscapa, former home of the Somoza dictators and the setting of the story of the Revolutionary Ouija Board.

Lead Hill, which rises on a steep incline on Managua’s western edge, is one of the bloodiest sections of highway in the country, and it’s not just due to frequent traffic accidents.

Nicaragua is still a place where you can walk into a new community and feel right at home – and that’s not by accident.

Hurricane Mitch was a natural disaster, but the people’s suffering was multiplied ten-fold by the human disaster that followed it, how is Hurricane Eta different?

Is “conflict beef” a thing in Nicaragua?