[hugh4]

>It is very difficult to view normal life in the second poorest country in the western hemisphere with the moral compass or glasses of middle-class US. Things are very different here.

Perhaps. But tolerance of "low-level" corruption is one of those things which causes Nigaragua to be the second-poorest country in the western hemisphere. The values of the middle-class US are a big part part of what made the US the richest country in the western hemisphere.

[pelle]

There are many things that keeps Nicaragua poor, this is hardly the most important one. Similar low level corruption is found all over Latin America except for perhaps Chile. It disappears once countries have been middle class for a while.