Lawless Nicaragua

Sabi Rix Chthon rules!

I think the police story is priceless for its hilarity, makes a nice change from other Nicaragua travelogues!
No problems on my recent Nicaragua trip, barring a minor loss of $ due to opportunistic pickpocketing, and a minor loss of running shoes due to opportunistic theft. Both opportunities provided by my own stupidity.
Don't believe the crime level hype, visit Nicaragua for yourself.

{quote:title=tequilakid wrote:}
By press time no objections had been received. This is taken to signify tacit approval of its contents. {quote}

mmm... I would take it to signify overt admission that they don't check their emails, particularly ones that ramble on towards the 3000 word mark, but each to their own...

As the author of the article, I would like to point out that I am not a Gringo. I have lived most of my life in a succession of Spanish-speaking countries, speak Spanish like a native and have no ethnic prejudices. It's true the article is not very flattering about the Nicaraguan police. I did not claim they were corrupt,but rather expressly recounted the failure of my bribery attempts.

And in Nicaragua the police are certainly much less oppressive than in Gringostan. I lived in a dozen countries before I moved to the United States when I was in my 30s. I had never been arrested anywhere for anything. In the space of 4 years I was arrested 4 times by the American cops merely out of spite or alleging petty charges. I was never convicted of anything, but had to pay $2,500 to a lawyer to defend me from charges of assault that were brought by a mob of Giant Food (a supermarket chain) employees who followed me out of the supermarket and tried to force me to return to the Giant supermarket from which I had just emerged. They had formed a posse to pursue me, in the mistaken belief that I had committed some unspecified misdeed with my video camera. They were egged on by a Giant supermarket employee who was evidently in the last stages of paranoid psychosis. On the day of the trial, my lawyer and the prosecutor together viewed (for the first time!) the incriminating videotape. The trial was immediately suspended for three years, because they could find no evidence against me! I wanted to be tried and acquitted, but my lawyer talked me into waiving trial, apparently because he didn't want to embarrass the prosecutor!

...you're one strange dude....

1. Where I live my companeros apply the term "STIFF" to persons who, among other things, are quick to hang the "strange" sign on others, as if being regular/conventional were a virtue.

2. Strange one, Im curious. What were you doing filming in a grocery, and what was the basis of their objection? How did the manager manifest his mental condition? I'm not trying to bust your balls, just intrigued. I share your disdain for the decrepit legal system in Gringostan.