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...NICARAGUA: SUSTAINABILITY...
...pretty much every job in every category at the magazine and excelled at each one. Jan came here from the Wall Street Journal in 1979 to be a correspondent in the New York bureau. She was soon posted to Mexico City, where she dropped her bags and disappeared into Nicaragua for a year to cover the Sandinistas and the contras. Upon her return, she hopscotched from World-section writer to deputy New York bureau chief to associate editor in the Arts section, where she reported about books, movies, music and her greatest passion: the theater...
Dena Fisher, a retired public health professional from New York who first visited Nicaragua in 1986 and still runs a project here, says Ortega's return has actually made it harder for her group to raise funds in the United States, because people don't want to be in solidarity with the current Sandinista government. She calls her project "humanitarian," and says she doesn't even like to use the word solidarity anymore...
...activist who runs service projects in rural Nicaragua says the Sandinista government she had been willing to die for 20 years ago is now one she fears to criticize. When asked to comment for this article, she answered, "I do not want to be deported. I would not want to say anything that might offend the present government...
...while the 1980s brand of internationalism has ended, there are still plenty of sandal-wearing gringo adventurers coming down to Nicaragua, though most now are looking to invest in inexpensive real estate and turn a profit. Of course, the old guard would say that's exactly what it means to be in solidarity with the new Sandinista government...