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This old tree was uprooted by Sunday's tornado, which luckily struck on a day when no children were in school (photo courtesy of Allan Gutierrez)

Tornado hits Masaya, damages 18 homes

July 2, 2013

Tornadoes may not hit Nicaragua with the same ferocity as in Oklahoma, but they can still have a devastating—if usually short-lived—effect.

Category: Latin America | Tags: Masaya, daily life

The Café du Parc

The Café du Parc

April 20, 2011

There’s a new café in town.  Its name – Café du Parc – is the first remarkable thing, in a place where the number of French speakers can probably be counted easily on one’s fingers (and I, with tattered remnants of schoolboy French, would be one of them).  More interestingly, the café has a sort […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, Masaya, daily life

‘Fernandez’ with his wife (he died in 2011)

Letter from Cuba

August 1, 2008

The old car was typical of Cuba.  This time it wasn’t a half-century old Chevrolet, but a slightly younger and less glamorous Lada.  Broken door handles and window-winders had been replaced by locally-made spares; the road was visible through a hole below the driver’s legs, ventilation came from a desk-top fan clamped to the dashboard.  […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Cuba, daily life

Election Day in Nicaragua

November 6, 2006

The phone rang.  It was our neighbour, Magda: ‘When are you going to vote?’ ‘Now, we’ll pick you up’.

Category: Latin America | Tags: daily life, Nicaragua, Masaya

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