**Nicaragua: The Tiny Country Making Big Waves in Global Trends** Alright, folks, buckle up! We’re diving into the heart of Central America to uncover why Nicaragua, a country that’s often overshadowed by its more famous neighbors, is suddenly trending globally. From political drama to natural wonders, Nicaragua is serving up a hot plate of topics…
**The Copa Centroamericana is Here to Steal Your Heart (and Your Sleep Schedule)** Alright, folks, buckle up! The Copa Centroamericana de CONCACAF is back, and it’s not just your average football tournament. It’s a vibrant explosion of culture, passion, and enough drama to make your favorite reality TV show look like a snoozefest. But why…
Managua, Nicaragua – Tuesday, 4:07 p.m. local time, which in this city means the sun is already staging its daily coup against any concept of punctuality. From the cracked balcony of the Crowne Plaza, you can watch the volcano Momotombo smolder like a chain-smoker who’s read too many climate reports and decided to keep puffing…
The Last Derby That Still Matters By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, somewhere between Tegucigalpa and the apocalypse They call it El Clásico Nacional, which is a charming bit of branding for what is essentially a quarterly civil-war cosplay between two neighborhoods separated by roughly six traffic lights and 112 years of mutual contempt….
Costa Rica: The Tiny Nation Making the Rest of Us Look Like Absolute Slobs San José, Costa Rica—If countries were houseguests, Costa Rica is the annoyingly well-mannered vegan cousin who shows up with a solar-powered blender, thanks you for the Wi-Fi, and then quietly composts your fridge before you’ve even found the corkscrew. While the…
Tegucigalpa and Managua have never been accused of modesty, but even by Central-American standards their latest pas de deux feels like geopolitical cabaret performed on a stage made of termite-riddled balsa. While the rest of the planet obsesses over whether an American president can remember which continent he’s bombing, the strip of land between the…
The Eternal Derby of Inconvenience Guatemala vs Panama, or How to Misplace a Canal and Still Win the Century By the time you finish this paragraph, a container ship the length of lower Manhattan will have slipped through the Panama Canal, earning the Panamanian treasury roughly the GDP of a midsize Baltic nation. Meanwhile, 600…
The Border That Isn’t: How Nicaragua and Costa Rica Invented a Cold War for the TikTok Age By Dave’s Locker Foreign Desk SAN JOSÉ—For the uninitiated, the San Juan River looks like any other sleepy tropical waterway—think lazy crocodiles, overworked herons, and the occasional backpacker who’s read too much Lonely Planet. Yet this 200-kilometre ribbon…
Honduras: The Little Republic That Couldn’t Catch a Break By Dave’s Locker International Desk (with a stiff cup of contraband coffee) If global geopolitics were a dinner party, Honduras would be the guest who arrives early, helps set the table, and still gets seated next to the drunk uncle who keeps spilling merlot on the…
