Next stop Nicaragua!

The "Live from Nicaragua" Project Week group left Sea-Tac bright and early on Monday, at 7am to be exact (image here by Chris Dragich is at 530am!). First stop was Houston, and a long layover that allowed time for this post. If all goes well, we'll land in Managua at 8p local time, 7p PT.

Our interviews start Tuesday -- first a former lawmaker who is now one of the loudest critics of President Ortega, followed by Nicaragua's president from 2002-2007, who is also critical of Ortega and the Sandinista Movement.

Stay tuned for quick posts about the interviews soon after we do them. And cnce we return we'll put together longer stories and videos on topics ranging from social issues (like abortion, education, and health) to religion and the geopolitics that once made Nicaragua front-page news in the U.S.