Nicaragua Quake Survivors Get Homes—40 Years Later

In the aftermath of a 1972 earthquake that leveled 50,000 buildings and killed 10,000 in Nicaragua’s capital city of Managua, many of the country’s poor had no place to go. While 250,000 of their middle- and upper-class counterparts migrated to safer, more habitable locales, the less fortunate…

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Nicaragua Quake Survivors Get Homes—40 Years Later

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