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Volz has always insisted that he was two hours away in the capital Managua at the time of the murder, and provided cell phone and IM chat-log records to prove his alibi - evidence that was dismissed by the judge presiding over his murder trial. Rodriguez, however, found that alibi more compelling, despite other inconsistencies in the case. "It's better to have 100 guilty people on the street than one innocent person in jail," Rodriguez told TIME...
...country that's nutty about gossip, veteran barbers Cesar Larios and Manuel Rodriguez run the engine room of the national rumor mill - ? Managua's landmark Imperial Barbershop. Since this modest three-chair barbershop opened its doors 35 years ago, Rodriguez and Larios have seated, aproned and lathered some of Nicaragua's most important politicians, bankers and powerbrokers. Right-wing former president Arnoldo Alem?n and ex-communist guerrilla leader Henry "Modesto" Ruiz are both on the client list. His Eminence, Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo, the country's top religious authority, has been getting the same haircut here for 30 years...
...Arnoldo Alem?n, the portly former president convicted on embezzlement charges, now sends a car and driver to fetch Rodr?guez to do a home haircut, for which the barber charges double, or $9. Miguel Obando y Bravo, who used to come into the shop when he was just Archbishop of Managua, started sending the car after the Pope named him cardinal...
...country's traditional agricultural sector, many of the finer families now live off of what's left of former fortunes, or on remittances sent from relatives in the United States. The younger generation, armed with college degrees from Texas A&M and Louisiana State University, have migrated to Managua to parlay their family names into middle-management or public-relations jobs, while the elders remain behind in their rocking chairs...
...real question for the moment is what Iran and Venezuela expect to get in return for their investment in Nicaragua. Next November, delegations from both countries plans to meet in Managua to discuss the seaport. "Nicaragua must give a 'quid pro quo' ... because the other two partners have not talked about [the seaport development being a] gift," says Roger Guevara, a Managua-based lawyer and former Nicaraguan ambassador to Venezuela, in an e-mail to TIME. "Certainly the Nicaraguan Government has to study what... they can offer," he says. "This includes a possibility of more than political and diplomatic support...