How Many Roads?

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Juigalpa, Nicargaua (1996)

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Nicaragua, which has only two paved highways, both of which are disintegrating, has no money for road repairs. Children fill the large potholes with soil and ask passing motorists for money (1996).
 



The above homes just outside of Juigalpa are typical of peasant dwellings found throughout the countryside.



The Juigalpa market area consists primarily of street vendors. The brick building behind the vendor in the bottom photo is also filled with vendors.

Street vendors cook tortillas and other food over fires in discarded truck-tire rims. The water flowing in the gutter under the open-fire griddle is the town's sewage system. This effluent flows into canals that lead to sewage-treatment ponds outside of town.

During the 1996 national election, hand-painted political banners and posters adorned many homes, businesses, and power poles.

Juigalpa's brick road ends just beyond the middle class residential area. Milk and firewood are still delivered by donkey.

Read Chapter 8 Summary for a synopsis of Emily and the author's Central American visit.

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