Word: nicaraguan
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...their projects with the vague notion of “protest” or discourse. Shvarts claimed her aim was to inspire “some sort of discourse” (what sort, we might wonder?). Vargas says he wanted to draw attention to the common fate of stray Nicaraguan dogs...
Ometepe Island, a budding Nicaraguan tourist destination dubbed an "oasis of peace," was anything but during a recent week, when it hosted two dozen members of a British Rapid Deployment Team on an intensive disaster-response training exercise...
...role-play on Ometepe Island was aided by a group of two dozen local British expats and Nicaraguan thespians who acted the parts of crash survivors, doctors and local government officials. The actors, empowered by the omnipotence of playing multiple characters throughout the week, were relentless on the British trainees, first shaking them down for bribes as customs agents and then later grilling them as journalists on issues of morality and corruption...
...reliable source tells me you bribed a customs official to enter the country," a Nicaraguan customs agent-turned-journalist demanded of the British man who slipped her $10 the day before to speed up his fake immigration paperwork...
...week, the British Rapid Deployment Team had received invaluable training in the real-life chaos of disaster-response, while the Nicaraguan actors got an interesting experience to add to their resumes. Ometepe, meanwhile, was just happy to see the group pack up its dead, grieving and injured and leave the island, allowing it to get back to its day job as a tourist oasis of peace...