Nicaragua

[Thomas Kruse]

I know that from many o the list Nicaragua has been or is important.  I'm in
touch with some friends there regarding the recent disaster.  Here's a note
of interest:

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Tom,

It's horrifying, both in the sheer magnitude of the disaster (now 4,000
dead; 7,000 disappeared, nearly a million homeless...and pobre Honduras esta
peor!)...but also this government has outdone itself in arrogance,
incompetence and general inhumanity.  Many of the dead, when it's all said
and done, will be lain directly at their doorstep.  Think Somoza 1972 [when
an earthquake leveled Managua], and then realize that as many friends have
told me, this is MUCH worse... Truly escalofriante [horrifying].

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This correspondent also sent a note on a USAID worker expelled from
Nicaragua for recommending that aid only be channnled through NGOs.  The
government apprently intercepted her email, and there found her call to
avoid government channels.

Tom

Tom Kruse / Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242
Email: tkruse at albatros.cnb.net