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Extract from the Estel Travel Guides:
At first sight
ESTEL
, the largest town in the north, can seem downtrodden and poor. It does have its poor
barrios
, but is an engaging place and a hotbed of political activity. Of all the towns in Nicaragua, in Estel you can best get a sense of what the country must have been like during the Revolution and glimpse something of the vision that inspired so many people during the 1980s. The town continues to provide fierce support for the Sandinistas, and witnessed violent disturbances following the controversial delay in announcing the results of municipal elections in November 2000, when President Alemn stalled for ti...
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