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Thanks for posting the links to your blog and video.   I look forward to following your progress in Nicarauga.  I was shocked in 2004 when I was studying Nicaragua to see how little had been written about it post-1990.  Nicaragua and interested persons are lucky to have someone like you investigating there.  While it does sound like your political tendencies are more forgiving of dictatorships in the name of the poor, than my political tendencies would be, nevertheless I admire your courage, good will, faith, and intelligence to tackle a project like yours.  Indeed, I think part of the reason so little has been written about Nicaragua is that it is so difficult to understand.  Ever since the first engagements of the "West" with Diriangen, and evident in El Gueguense, the Nicaraguan culture maintains something fiercely independent, fiercely interdependent; charmingly inviting and viciously vengeful.  It's very hard to learn anything about Nicaragua without becoming involved; yet, once involved, you become part of the drama.  It's like Margaret Meade's disaster in the Pacific on steroids, because the Nicaraguans already have hundreds of years of interacting with people like you and I, and we are relatively new to the game.

Your time in Nicaragua it seems has not been boring so far, and it's unlikely it will be boring for you anytime soon.  Keep up the good work!