In Nicaragua, politics matter a great deal. Howard has his detractors, but even about these, he is philosophical. One thorn in his side is the activist and irrepressible editor of the island's first local newsletter, Lorrain Bodden. But Howard's view is that it's better to have a newsletter that he sometimes disagrees with than no newsletter at all. And to make his point, he allocates 3,000 cordobas from the municipality budget each month to defray the publication's printing costs.
Taxes make the difference.
The complex history of a long-ignored region. From dependency to autonomy. Building local government from the bottom up. The economics of decentralization. Tale of two islands.