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With prices soaring, 86.8% of Nicaraguans cannot afford to buy essentials
Lydia is a machine operator in a free trade zone in Managua. She works on a shirt assembly line in Las Mercedes Industrial Park and, on January 2024, she received news which, while sounding good, did not exactly thrill her: Daniel Ortega’s government, …