He’s the guy that parachute reporters, radio hosts and news editors turn to when they need the skinny on Nicaragua. For the past eight years, commuting between his colonial home in Granada and his office in Managua, Rogers has cranked out endless copy for The Christian Science Monitor, the BBC, Time, The Miami Herald and the defunct Nica Times, a former publication of The Tico Times. His stories run the gamut from exclusive interviews with Nicaragua’s rich and powerful insiders to features on poor Nicaraguan kids pursuing dreams on a dusty baseball field.