Nicaragua
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Nicaragua is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between April 14, 2021 and November 02, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “When Honduras’ neighbor Nicaragua brutally crushed anti-government protests”; “I looked into Central America, and found that Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala also all saw murders decline”; “Allies like Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Ecuador saluted the comandante”. It most often appears alongside Germany, United States, America.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: April 14, 2021
- Last seen: November 02, 2023
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- Germany (3 shared issues)
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- United States (3 shared issues)
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- America (2 shared issues)
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- Denmark (2 shared issues)
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- Guatemala (2 shared issues)
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- Honduras (2 shared issues)
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- Italy (2 shared issues)
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- New York (2 shared issues)
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- Trump (2 shared issues)
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- UK (2 shared issues)
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- US (2 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Their second argument builds on the first; HPI only makes money if lots of people live in Próspera and patronize it with their business. If they start murdering people or stealing things, you wouldn’t want to live there and you wouldn’t want to set up a business there. When Honduras’ neighbor Nicaragua brutally crushed anti-government protests, their GDP per capita decreased 10% - an unprecedented amount during peacetime - as citizens fled, businesses closed, and foreign investment rushed out. If nothing else, HPI will be trying to avoid this to protect its own bottom line.
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A commenter was concerned that European countries were a bad comparison, and asked about other countries with lots of guns and high murder rates. I looked into Central America, and found that Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala also all saw murders decline rather than spike in 2020.
A sublimely gifted politician with empathy for the poor, the power of Croesus, the result, fiasco. While he thundered about bringing equilibrium to the universe and polarised his country, foaming passions into hate, neighbours built more sustainable economies and tackled long-term poverty. Allies like Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Ecuador saluted the comandante but did not emulate his economic model, for that way lay ruin. Brazil seized regional leadership. Venezuela atrophied. Nothing worked, but there was money and spectacle. An empty revolution, then. No paradise, no hell, just limbo, a bleak misty in-between where ambition and delusion played out its ancient story. The farces and follies did not add up to despotic horror but they bore the melancholy echo of opportunity squandered, of what might have been, and there was the tragedy.