Despite not being my favorite city this trip, Managua does have some of my favorite monuments. In Parque De La Paz they have old military equipment symbolically cemented into the ground. It is the site where weapons were gathered to be destroyed after the Contras turned in their arms. You can see twisted gun barrels poking out in places.
Also, this statue of an almost comically muscled worker stands holding a pickaxe and a rifle with the Sandinista flag hanging off of it. A passing Nica woman called out in Spanish, "don't take photos, it's very ugly." The plaque below reads: only the workmen and farmers will go until the end --National Worker's Front.
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Nica means Nicaraguan?
Oh, and I'm writing an article for the Virgian Pilot about couchsurfing.
Yeah, the real word is Nicaragüense but that is hella long and also fuck diereses so everyone says Nica instead. That is going to be a dope article let me know if you need interviewsauce.
so that statue has a blasted leg... a couple of years ago, someone packed it filled with bombs in an assassination attempt.
Also, fuck the FSLN.
You should have told me ahead of time that you were going to Managua... I could have made arrangements for some hotties to pick you up and take you out dancing at all the fancy clubs haha
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