FRIDAY, MARCH 06, 2009
January 2009 Delegation Finds Positive Programs but Continuing Problems
The delegation met with Education Minister Miguel de Castilla (left).
By Katherine Hoyt
The Nicaragua Network sponsored a delegation to Nicaragua from January 10 to 18, 2009 on which Chuck Kaufman and I both were able to travel with a diverse group of members that included university professors, primary school teachers, students, a family physician, and a librarian. Our goal was to learn more about what two full years of Sandinista government has meant for Nicaragua. We found answers to some of our questions and found that we had only begun to learn the answers to others. We were confronted with statements from different sources that strongly contradicted each other. In some cases we were able to at least partially resolve those contradictions; in others we were not.
We had a number of meetings in Managua before traveling to Matagalpa to get a different perspective. We heard severe criticisms of government programs from some but found that in practice the criticized programs were making a difference, albeit with problems recognized by the people involved in implementing them.
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