Eyder peralta nicaragua currency

AILSA CHANG, HOST:

Over the past decade, Nicaragua has become one of the most authoritarian countries in the Western Hemisphere.

And for more than a year now, the country has also kept foreign journalists out. But NPR's Eyder Peralta managed to get in, and he's on the line with us now to share a bit of his exclusive on-the-ground reporting. Hey, Eyder.

EYDER PERALTA, BYLINE: Hey, Ailsa.

CHANG: So tell us a little bit about what you saw and heard there.

PERALTA: So what I really wanted to do was get a sense of everyday life, and what I found is that on the surface, everything points to normal.

Eyder peralta nicaragua currency exchange

Shops are open. They're stocked. People go about their daily lives. But once you dig just a little bit, you find that this is a country that lives in fear, and everyone is afraid of the ghosts of what this government has done. And this government has thrown a Catholic bishop in jail.

They've thrown revolutionary heroe