Travel to Central America

Living and Investing in the New Nicaragua

Format: Paperback
Author: Christopher Howard
ReleaseDate: 31 May, 2001
Publisher: Costa Rica Books
Rating:

never got my order
it was sent to wrong address which was my old address. never received it. i tried to get you to change delivery address but said you could not. the people at that address said that it was never delivered. i paid for it and never received it. i had called your customer service the minute the order went through. i am not familiar with your system and pushed quick order which caused order to complete before i could figure out how to change my address . i found your customer service people difficult to deal with over phone. i hope i never have to use amazon again. please send me the book i paid for. i was told that the order had to go through to the old address which was not changed before hand because i did not know the order would go through. i was told it would be sent back to you and re-sent to me at my current address, which i changed. i expect you will contact me and straighten this out.
239 four seasons dr. Drums, Pa. 18222.
tel number 570-788-4472.
Robert Schmitz .

Somoza's Book " NICARAGUA BETRAYED " Was More Truthful !
S. Books like these are largely responsible for many of the negative stereotypes many Latin Americans have of U. Citizens. Nicaragua is the 2nd poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. Anyone who can retire there in luxury amid such horrible poverty should do The U. S. a favor and stay home. Nicaragua and it's people deserve better. I may also add there are many Americans living in Nicaragua and are good citizens who are trying to help the country. You are not going to be helping this unfortunate country by moving there and becoming a land speculator. All this does is drive property prices up and beyond the means of Nicaraguan nationals.

How To Be An Ugly American in Nicaragua
. These leeches (no, leeches suck blood only
to survive; these exploiters do it to get filthy
rich--with the emphasis on filthy).

There's a book you may have seen--it's "Living and
Investing in the New Nicaragua", by Christopher
Howard, another gringo living in luxury in Costa Rica.
Someone gave me a copy of the book, and, boy howdy,
it's awful.

Howard claims to be an expert on Nicaragua (and Costa Rica) but shows his disconnect with the country by making several obvious, stupid, factual errors in the first 3 pages--
errors almost anyone should spot right away. And the mistakes continue throughout the book. He goes
on to thank the U$ Embassy for its "useful
information" (lots of anti-Sandinista/pro-neocolonialist historical revisionism , of course).

He says that "learning a little Spanish" would be
helpful, but is not necessary, as one can just hang
out, getting drunk and obnoxious with other ex-pats and leave the work to the servants (for a dollar a day).

Howard counts among his friends some the Yankee and
Canadian crowd that have pretty much raped San Juan
del Sur. They bought beautiful acreage for pennies and
are selling "lots" for $70,000 and up; they've set
up/taken over restaurants and bars that compete with
long-time local businesses--and get the bulk of the
gringos' cash. There are Centruy 21, ReMax and other U$ realestate company signs all over. As always, the locals
are marginalized, and pushed aside, more every day.

So far, he seems to have forayed only as far north as
Granada, thank goodness.

Yes it's scary, sad and disgusting, but it ain't gonna
stop. It's following the time-honored tradition of
capitalist empire: kill tens of thousands of people, wreck the economy, destroy much of the infrastructure, get the country on its knees, thentake it over for virtually nothing, all "legally".

If one wants to know Nicaragua from a human and humane perspective, and wants to get the reality of this wonderful country--and give it the profound respect it deserves--then read the other book displayed on the same page as Howard's atrocity: the excellent Moon Publication Nicaragua guidebook, written by Joshua Berman and Randy Wood. THEY know what they're talking about.

By the way, I have been traveling to and through Nicaragua for the past 20 years, coordinating a solidarity/sister-city project with a beautiful town in the northern part of the country. I have many wonderful friends--the real people of Nicaragua--who lead honest lives, and deserve a better future than the one the vampires have in mind for them.

Howard doesn't have a clue. DON'T buy this book. DON'T support the rape and pillage of Nicaragua.

. . . .

Timoteo.

Related products:
click image or link for details on these Central America travel books.

	Nicaragua Map (Travel Reference Map)
	Moon Handbooks Nicaragua (Moon Handbooks : Nicaragua)
	Nicaragua In Focus: a Guide to the People, Politics and Culture (In Focus Guides)
	Living and Investing in Panama
	Footprint Nicaragua (Nicaragua Guidebook) (Nicaragua Travel Guide)