Word: nicaragua
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...social studies concentrator in Dunster House, and returns to Harvard feeling curiously empowered after a humbling semester in Nicaragua and a disheartening summer in Pakistan. Through his column, “To the Left, To the Left,” on alternate Thursdays, he hopes to communicate to readers the urgent need for radically democratic politics...
...avalanche-like noise on a recent rainy night proved to be an architectural metaphor for the fate of Nicaragua's erstwhile elite: In a matter of 30 seconds, the front half of a grand colonial adobe mansion collapsed into the street in a pile of muddy rubble, revealing the wobbly structure that holds together the homes and social class of the country's former oligarchy...
...Like Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, the remnants of many of Nicaragua's traditionally powerful families live in crumbling mansions in a no longer politically relevant city, clinging to memories of colonial grandeur. Their skin color is generally lighter than the rest of the population's; their politics are conservative; and their last names are those that have for centuries filled the rosters of Nicaragua's social clubs...
...oligarchy is in a profound crisis; it's in its final days," says sociologist Orlando Nunez, author of the briskly selling Oligarchy in Nicaragua...
...grim economic, political and social realties of a changing Nicaragua has prompted some to cash in their family's last chips, selling their homes in a hot real estate market and thereby severing their last ties to past grandeur. Still, despite the hardships, old paradigms die hard, Nunez says...