Nicaragua, twenty years on…

I recently went back to Nicaragua to visit friends. It was twenty years since I had lived there myself, and I couldn't help reflect on the changes that have happened all over the country. I was twenty-four when I left Paris for Managua, staying away for two years and coming back changed deep inside. I had gone over there to work for a Franco-Nicaraguan cooperation programme, in lieu of my – then obligatory – military service in France (Given the choice between living in Central America for...