A girl eats a meal provided by Feed My Starving Children in Nicaragua in 2012. Nicaragua is heading for a third consecutive year of economic contraction in 2020, which will result in open unemployment for at least 237,000 people, and a poverty level above two million Nicaraguans, according to estimates of the Nicaraguan Foundation for Economic and Social Development (Funides), whose economists urged for a political solution to the crisis.

First published in the November 18, 2019, 11:32 p.m. edition

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