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(excerpt from Gail’s journal)<\/span><\/p>\n

There is thisgreat descriptive word in Spanish. Aplastado.\u00a0 Basically it means \u201ccrushed\u201d.\u00a0 It is the only word I can think of to describe what is going on in the shantytowns of\u00a0 La California behind the airport this week, oddly enough just a few days before the\u00a0 new president is inaugurated.\u00a0\u00a0 Who lives in these neighborhoods?\u00a0 Women who walked with their children for days over the mountains in desperation to get education, health care, a better future for their kids.\u00a0 Men who tried everything to get work in Nicaragua and who didn\u2019t want to resort to stealing or other illegal activities to maintain their families. Children who loved their parents so much that they trusted them to come to a place where there would be more hope.\u00a0 People who love life and long for a better future that they were willing to risk everything. And when they get here, they make houses out of what they can find.\u00a0 And they continually improve their houses and work to eak out a decent place to be. They register their kids for school. And they believe in themselves, the government, the authorities to respect their wishes and to let them try to get up in the world. And what about the school?\u00a0 In La California, the Japanese embassy,\u00a0 Costa Rican Humanitarian Foundation, McMath school from Canada, the British School of Costa Rica \u00a0and the Do the Right Thing Foundation believed enough in these kids, in the system to invest time, energy, money, materials and most of all lots of love, to make sure these kids had a decent place to study. It is more than decent, it is beautiful, a real model school with classrooms, playgrounds, a library, materials, decent furniture\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Imagine, when I was at the school one month ago, two women walked in. They had just arrived from Nicaragua the night before. They had only the clothes on their backs and between them they had eight children from infants to 13 years old. Not one of these women or their children had ever set foot inside a school in their lives.\u00a0 They were so nervous and happy and excited that finally, finally, they were going to get a chance at an education\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the legacy that we \u00a0left in Nicaragua. After spending millions of dollars per day defending the country from communism in the years of Reagan\u2019s presidency, twenty years later, we spend not a penny to help the infrastructure of the country.\u00a0 Not a penny to assure that the children have the basic right to an education. <\/span><\/p>\n

What would any of us do in the circumstances that these people live in?\u00a0 What parent would not do anything to make sure their kids had a better future.<\/span><\/p>\n

And what is happening now.\u00a0 Yesterday, spite of being told that they would be able to stay until the school year is over, the people were told they had to leave.\u00a0 They got their belongings, they walked out of their houses and immediately the bulldozers came in and literally crushed their homes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aplastados.\u00a0 Their homes. Their belongings.\u00a0 Their spirits.\u00a0 Their faith. Their hopes. Their dreams. Their trust.\u00a0 Crushed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gail Nystrom\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May 2006<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a9 Gail Nystrom 2007. All rights reserved.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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