Criminal

According to this article the Bosawás forest has been partially deforested and the recent assassination of Mayangna leader Charley Taylor, have put the local residents on a war footing because of governmental\ political inaction.

http://www.nicaraguadispatch.com/news/2013/04/indigenous-congressman-war...

1st Capt. Ron

(Title by Miskito Alan)

We passed through the central ghetto yesterday and saw something new-- police in black uniforms. Normally, police here have on clean. starched, light blue shirts. They have a very neutral look, like letter carriers or something.

I was concentration on priority one, not hitting potholes, and didn`t notice that some of them had on masks. It was a little like something from a grade B movie, but they were just sitting on the corner.

That night they raided businesses throught out the north on an anti-money laundering operation. Big news on the tube the following morning.

I have now seen two articles about a Gringo with legal problems in Nicaragua. Whether this person is innocent or guilty I don't know but it, once again, inspires some thought about a general problem.

This particular case is covered a couple of TV blurbs, this one from the FOX TV station in San Antonio. The story is summarized as:

Family members are trying everything they can to get a San Antonio businessman released from a Central American jail.

FYI; See link below to the article on the capture of Toth

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/22/us-usa-crime-toth-idUSBRE93L19...

http://www.nationmaster.com/compare/Nicaragua/United-States/Crime

Found while engaged in a handgun argument elsewhere with Tron Guy, Jay Maynard. Kids don't appear to kill kids here at the same rate that they do in the US. And the US has more reported rapes than the US (the accuracy of this stat depends on whether all rapes are reported).

This one is fun, too -- http://www.nationmaster.com/compare/Costa-Rica/Nicaragua/Crime

Not in Nicaragua but since I noted MS 13 activity in both Rivas and Grenada I thought i would post here. seems like it could be a good program.

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2012/12/26/15590

Two years is a long time to wait. How many Nicaraguan judges flee to Spain immediately after sentencing someone.

This stinks; I don't think any of these guys are guilty.

http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/nacionales/259957-caso-puracal-se-reacti...

No big surprise, the unconstitutional regime supports the murderous thugs in Syria.

Fellow travelers Cuba, Venezuela, and Bolivia also support the butcher al-Hassad.

Considering Danny-Boy's profound affection for other murderous thugs (Qadaffi, Stalin, Kim Il-whichever), this isn't a surprise.

Also something that the pump-fisting $andali$ta$ tend to avoid when proselytizing the "mixed economy would have been great except for the intervention of the evil US" foolios...

A spade is, alas, a spade.

Thugs to the core.

I've heard that a German and Nicaraguan have been arrested for killing a man. One person had heard this; other ex-pat friends hadn't heard anything. I don't know if the German is a German-Nicaraguan or a German expat and he wasn't anyone I knew.

http://csis.org/publication/nicaragua-lessons-country-low-crime-rate

Hemisphere Focus By Stephen Johnson, Siremorn Asvapromtada, Samuel Kareff JUL 10, 2012

from CSIS Americas:

http://vimeo.com/44322507

Citizen Security in Central America: A Conversation with Aminta Granera, Nicaragua's Director General of the National Police by CSIS PLUS 3 weeks 1 day ago / Creative Commons License: by nc sa

Let me explain. [No Juanno, I wasn't doped-up on the scrapings from a trans-Nica shipment.] I was robbed, sort of. En route from Leon to Managua wearing baggy cargo shorts my wallet was picked from one of my Velcro-closed flap pockets. OK, t’was my error, but there's more. I was engrossed in reading a La Prensa article on Daniel's daughter-in-law pulling down $1.69 million in one contract as General Manager of DNP (Distributor of Nica Petroleum).

Oh, heck. Them what steals.

Not directly related to one part of the world, but links to these two sites may provide some amusement while you all wait out the cold, gray, wet winter.

No, wait. That's me. You have sunshine.

Poop.

Thiefhunters Blog: Thiefhunters in Paradise: Pickpockets, Con Artists, Gangsters, Thieves, and Travel

It seems the robberies never stop. 2 suffers just had an attempted hold up at Tamarindo beach. This happened one day ago. One perpetrator with a gun and the other with a machete. Both had on mask. The suffers were held at gun point while one held the gun and the other went thru the car.

No police report was made. Why bother they do nothing.

I see on another post that the Nicaraguan Police are training the Venezuela Police. The blind leading the blind. Another country not to go to.

Until more people are killed this will not stop. That is on both sides. Sad but true.

The title is the question. By "we" I mean all of us that live in Nicaragua. I am, however, specifically interested in crime other than in Managua. I will explain why and also try to offer some realistic talking points.

Nicaragua, like so many Third World countries, has a relatively small and inexpensive government. While the Nicaraguan government does try to provide important services including education and health care, everything is on a budget. Police protection is certainly one of those items on a budget.