In Potosi, some teachers sleep on the classroom floor during the week and ride the bus to their hometowns on weekends. Many classroom floors are earthen. Rain often flows in through the classroom roofs. Few textbooks or teaching supplies. Wall charts were often drawn by hand.
Walls often serve as chalkboards.
Not one of them asked for something for themselves. Nicaraguans might feel like they are in a forgotten place. 12 years of civil war. In July 1979 alone, tens of thousands of Nicaraguans were killed. Comandantes , not compesinos , racked up that debt.