We have had a good many people to write us and ask us what in the world is going on in Nicaragua as they read all the international reporting. This is our attempt at trying to put the recent arrests in a way that people living in the United States might better understand.\u00a0 We are finding that if we do comparisons, that other people can maybe get a feeling of what this little nation that we love so much is doing.<\/p>\n
First let us explain some before we get to the comparisons between Nicaragua and the U.S.<\/p>\n
USAID and other U.S. government entities have sent astronomical sums of money to NGOs in Nicaragua, a poor country of only 6.5 million people. A comparison of the wealth of the two countries makes the figures even more outrageous. Nicaragua\u2019s GDP is around $12 billion, while the GDP of the US is around $21 trillion\u2014that makes the U.S. economy more than 1,750 times larger than Nicaragua\u2019s. We multiplied the figures of money sent to Nicaragua by 1,750 to show what an equivalent sum would mean in the U.S. in the comparisons below.<\/p>\n
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