A City Dies in a Cicle of Fire
Managua, Nicaragua is a beautiful
town, You buy a hacienda for a few pesos
down...
MANAGUA was never quite as idyllic as the pop hit of the postwar 1940s made it out to be. Until last week, Nicaragua's capital (pop. 400,000) was a city of sharp contrasts: of wood and tin shacks in the crowded downtown slums, of office towers and modern middle-class apartments along Avenida Central, of sprawling homes and haciendas owned by the rich atop the low volcanic hills on the city's outskirts. As Christmas...
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