Nicaragua is the largest country in Central America, with a size comparable to Greece. Nicaragua has a tremendous mix of natural beauty (about 20% of the country is preserved land including volcanoes, lakes and rainforests) and historical sites. Nearly one-third of Nicaragua's population lives in the capital, Managua. Nearby Granada, one of the first European cities in mainland Americas, boasts colonial architecture while the city of León is known for its university.
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Note: During my trips to Nicaragua, Dr. Edgard Narváez and Dr. Zaira Pineda were kind enough to show me some of the sites of this country which I am sharing with these photos.
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My photos of the islands in Lake Nicaragua near Granada didn't come out but the location was spectacular.
I hadn't heard that Japan was interested in cleaning up Managua. However, is not as easy as it sounds. Do you remember a chemical company called HERCASA? Well, for over thirty years they dumped untreated chemical waste into the ground and lake. The ground pollution found its way to the lake too through the groundwater. Basically, the bottom layer of Xolotlan is contaminated with a lot of heavy metals, including high concentrations of mercury. Mercury has an affinity to attach to fat in animals and is not discharged after ingestion. Because it is rationalized that trying to remove the contamination would suspend in the water the chemicals that have already settled, it is better to leave it alone (unless you run the risk of re-introducing it to the food chain). Unfortunately, the best way is to prevent further contamination, stop raw sewage from reaching the waters, and prevent waste (like in Acahualinca) from reaching the lake too.
And I wanna thank Mr Friedman for bring up some memories.
BTW It's sometimes tough to detect sarcasm when people post online but I am quite sure missouriwatcher was joking below in his comment about cheap vacation spots.
I do not think missouriwatcher was being humorous at all - IMO he has seriously flawed thinking about how best to raise third world Nations and the people out of Poverty.
I do not usually think much of the World Bank numbers without comparing them to other sources as IMO they are very Political in their views and directions. They tend to micro manage the economies with their loan programs and then tout the ones that they have some success with and down play the failures. Like the UN they try but have to much baggage to travel fast enough to help in most cases IMO.