Navigating Nicaragua

The murals depicting Ben Linder’s life tell us a story of revolution, resiliance, and of a legacy that still shines brightly in Nicaragua.

Join us this Saturday & for our in-person delegation in August!

During a time when revolutionary murals were being erased, art bloomed in the secret gardens of Managua.

Join us this Saturday & Sunday to learn about the recent Light & Legacy Brigade and Women in Nicaragua!

I can’t take you on my favorite tour of Managua, because its Revolutionary murals - a visual embodiment of what Nicaragua was trying to become in the 1980s - have been erased.

When I moved to Nicaragua 20 years ago, I refused to believe the Food Court at the mall was the only place to be, so I dragged my husband off to find where people were hanging out.

The best views of Managua are from the shadow of Sandino’s silhouette at Tiscapa, former home of the Somoza dictators and the setting of the story of the Revolutionary Ouija Board.

Lead Hill, which rises on a steep incline on Managua’s western edge, is one of the bloodiest sections of highway in the country, and it’s not just due to frequent traffic accidents.

Nicaragua is still a place where you can walk into a new community and feel right at home – and that’s not by accident.

Love is action…what we do to and for others.

Joy feeds the soul. I love our Chinese dragon…our symbol of JOY…the glittering fire burning away the pain and hurt to allow the bells to ring and my soul to fly.

PEACE cannot be “kept,” PEACE can only be made through hard, hard work and understanding.

The best way to break anyone is to take away their HOPE. We must stubbornly hang on to that HOPE or all is lost.

Drive past four volcanoes and three crater lakes, turn left an arroyo until you get to a river bed, dig yourself out of the mud, hop on a tractor, ride up to the top of the mountain and you’ll be at the El Porvenir organic coffee cooperative.

While Nicaragua was weathering Hurricane Eta, the United States was weathering an electoral storm.

Hurricane Mitch was a natural disaster, but the people’s suffering was multiplied ten-fold by the human disaster that followed it, how is Hurricane Eta different?

Is “conflict beef” a thing in Nicaragua?