the workshop we lead in Ayote

the horrible trip to Ayote (and subsequent loss of my snadals) was for a purpose: we went there to lead a workshop for the local women, to encourage them to form a set of demands with which they could then bargain with local politicians. With elections looming in November (they only occur once every 5 years), our goal was to assist the women of Ayote to get politically organized. My contribution to this noble cause was basically nill: I was relegated to taking pics...

Relative Concepts: "City", Time, "Good Coffee", "I don´t have any shoes"!

May 15th 2006
Since the last journal entry concerning Puerto Cabesas, we then proceeded to travel to a small town called El Ayote. Actually, I don´t even know that Ayote should qualify as a "town": it´s a tiny, hole-in-the-wall, out-of-the-way place in the middle of the mountains in Nicaragua´s Southern Atlantic Region (RAAS). It consists of a few muddy roads, lined with sagging little buildings that look li ... read more

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The Pacific Coast of Nicaragua was settled as a Spanish colony from Panama in the early 16th century. Independence from Spain was declared in 1821 and the country became an independent republic in 1838. Britain occupied the Caribbean Coast in the fir... ... read more

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