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Letter From Nicaragua
Lantigua, John | November 12, 2001 issue

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The article focuses on political condition of Nicaragua. The U.S., which found Nicaragua unsettling in the 1980s because of socialism now supports a government that's giving capitalism a bad name--to the point where the Sandinistas may be voted back into office. What the author found, after Nicaragua's eleven years as a free-market economy and on the eve of national elections, was a depth of poverty that had never existed during the Sandinista years. Shortages and rationing, which were endemic in the 1980s, have been replaced by relative wealth for some households and out-and-out hunger in many others.

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NICARAGUA -- Politics & government; POLITICS, Practical; SOCIALISM; CAPITALISM; FREE enterprise; POVERTY; HOUSEHOLDS; NICARAGUA
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