“EL BLUFF, Nicaragua – It’s Saturday morning, and the beach by this southeast Nicaraguan village is full of seaweed and plastic waste. The waves of the Caribbean Sea are choppy because the rainy season has just begun. Conditions are perfect for a day of beachcombing, says 62-year-old Javier Duncan. But he’s not talking about normal sea trash – he’s talking about drugs and cash.” This paragraph was taken from www.ticotimes.com from an interview with a man named Javier Duncan with his worn backpack, dog, and machete walking the Nicaraguan bay at El Bluff. Now, we all know latin america for soccer, the amazon, religion, and drugs. In this essay I will be focusing on the one topic, drugs. Big thing here in the Americas whether you live in North,…show more content… The drug trade in Nicaragua is both good and bad in my opinion and going into this project I did not consider trafficking to be this controversial or heartbreaking as it really is. The fact that people actually go out looking for kids to take away from their family and conduct suxual affairs is so sad. Also, the fact that some families and neighborhoods depend on the drug trade is just so different to me and I couldn’t have guessed that actually happens but, it is reality and we have to live with that. On another note, the military and police force are trying their hardest to get rid of it and that is inspiring. What I learned from this is that more is happening in the world than I thought and that the North really needs to stop sitting on our butts and start helping out ourselves and our neighbors one way or another. A simple solution to this problem is for the government not only to recognize what’s happening with the drug cartel, but also what happens when it is taken away from neighborhoods and families. For some people, they depend on trafficking just to get by. If they created more jobs and maybe lowered the requirements, I think everyone would have a very merry
