Where is justice for the exploited?
As a backdrop to this theatre of the absurd, the debt of the exploited nations continues to bleed their people. Ninety percent of Nicaraguas population exist on two dollars or less a day. In 2003 in Nicaragua, 35 cents of every dollar collected in taxes will go to pay interest on the debt. In 2004, 66 cents will go to pay interest. For the last 15 years or more, the exploited countries have been paying interest on the debt instead of investing in their children. The former Nicaraguan Assistant Secretary of State, Alejandro Bendaa, says that if Nicaragua continues to pay, it has no future. We shouldnt pay the interest on the debt as long as one child is without health care and education. Nan McCurdy has worked in Central America for the last 20 years. She and her husband are missionaries with the United Methodist Church. She assists and promotes women’s organizations, empowering women through programs to prevent domestic/gender violence, promote integral community-based health care and
