Chiquita’s Brand of Crisis Management
In the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch, business interestsboth domestic and foreignsought to use the crisis to advance their own interests.
A Legacy of War Unearthed
On November 16, 1998, 12-year-old Bernardo González went for a swim in a pond near Puerto Viejo, in north-central Nicaragua.
Surviving Mitch
The survivors of last October's devastation in Honduras and Nicaragua have lived through a double hurricane: a four-day meteorological event
A Community Response in El Salvador
The wind moved suddenly, shaking the branches of the mango trees. Just a few days before, a wave of humiditydifferent
Post-Mitch Central America: The U.S. Response
Though the mainstream U. S. media stopped reporting the devastation left by Hurricane Mitch a few weeks after the storm
Nicaragua’s Structural Hurricane
A hurricane or natural disaster hits two equally populated territories with the same force. Why is it that the human
Strange Bedfellows: The Aleman-Ortega Pact
Consensus politics has a bad name in Nicaraguathat is, where "consensus" means divvying up the spoils of government. The Somozas