Dispatches from the Field

If I had to come all the way to Nicaragua to ride down the highway in the back of an open pick-up truck, so be it.

Sunday, Denise, David, and I, along with John Furlong of the Brentwood, Mo. Public Library and Amy Wiza of the Wisconson/Nicaragua Project, piled into a truck bound for Granada, a picturesque colonial city about 50 miles north of San Juan del Sur.… Read the rest

Tipitapa is a small, impoverished community on the outskirts of Managua. So far, its Wikipedia entry contains only a single notable event ? a treaty signed 80 years ago ending one of the US?s numerous and unfortunate interventions in Nicaragua. To get to our destination, we drove over unpaved roads with massive ruts and puddles ?… Read the rest

I have posted the Powerpoint slides and handout that I presented on Thursday online.… Read the rest

Tipitapa

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Denise Davis of Simmons College reads with children at the Tipitapa learning center. The small concrete building on a muddy dirt road outside of Managua doubles as the organizer’s home.… Read the rest

Manualidades

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Ruth Perez, a Nicaraguan librarian from the San Juan del Sur Biblioteca Movil demonstrates craft projects (“manualidades”) for teachers at the Tipitapa learning center.… Read the rest