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Stunning and varied scenery in wonderful hot weather from the might of the Panama Canal to the jaw dropping beauty of the rain and cloud forests to the awesome splendour of the region's volcanoes and craters...It was an absolutely stunning experience, greatly helped by the small group I travelled and very well organised and let by this travel company.
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"Nicaragua has had its fair share of natural and human-caused disasters. Behind me in this picture stretches Managua's vast city dump, La Chureca, a stark symbol of the failure of the neo-liberal economic policies pursued by the Government of Arnoldo Aleman, as decreed by the International Monetary Fund.
Here 1000 people, 700 of them children, looking like extras from 'Mad Max' swathed in scarves and goggles to protect their eyes from the toxic fumes and dust, scavenge with hooked poles through the garbage for something to 'recycle' and sell-on. Working with a local charity, Dos Generaciones, Body Shop is offering these children a better life off the dump through education and training.
Earlier I'd visited the site of the Las Casitas volcano mudslide, a natural disaster caused by Hurricane Mitch's assault on the country in 1998. A survivor recounting to me what happened on that terrible day, began with a traditional saying, 'To be Nicaraguan is to be where the problems are...', I could understand why. At 11.30 am on October 30, 1998 after a biblical '7 days and nights of rain' totalling five year's worth of normal rainfall, the crater of the volcano collapsed 'with a roaring noise like fighter planes', burying 8 communities in minutes and killing at least 2,500 people. The scar gouged through the landscape by the deluge of mud, trees and boiling hot rocks from the heart of the volcano is plainly visible three years on. Describing the sound as 'like fighter planes' comes unconsciously to a people too familiar with war." By Anita Roddick.
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