How much longer is it going to take...

While the normal life in Granada goes on...
The street children trying to find food, begging, or by selling grasshoppers made from palm leafs.
Others working on the market all day long for a couple of bucks.
Teen girls getting pregnant and teen boys who couldn't care less.
... Jose Angel is still locked up in Managua.

The hope was set on his mother, but as you know, she didn't want to do the effort to go to "La Familia" in Masaya to get her son released.

And because his mother didn't care about Jose Angel getting out, Doña Miriam from La familia" was very suspicious. I would be too!

All hope is set on the aunt now. But things are taking for ever.
And when Eynar told Doña Miriam that his brother was missing three weeks of valuable time studying at his Collegio her answer was "no es mi problema!".
"That's not my problem!"

Not very professional, if you ask me. But this is Nicaragua, and here things are different.
In the States, Canada or Europe, mothers whom throw their kids of 2 years old or 10 years old would be punished. Here it seems to be a socially accepted way of life.
Anywhere else, the well being and education of the child would be a priority, here weeks have been lost because people were on vacation, or telephones were out of order.

Telling that Jose Angel is very fortunate because he doesn't have to live in the streets like the others, but in a real house with a refrigerator, a stove and comfortable beds made things worse.
It seems like nobody is used to people helping other people... especially when they're poor and homeless!

But He has a caring profesora in his Collegio who keeps on calling me because she's worried about him, and about the weeks of classes that he's been missing.

And a loving neighbor, Doña Adela, who lives right accross the door and keeps an eye on the brothers and on the house. AND, she's a Police woman. That should give some trust to the people of "La Familia". She always comes down to say hello when I go to the house and keeps on thanking me for everything that we do for the brothers, and for the poor (children) in general.

When we started buying the street children their Saturday lunches, the police came to investigate where the money came from (!)
They weren't happy that at least one day a week, they would get a nice meal.
No, they were worried that they had to work in childprostitution in order to get some food (!) Although that there were no indications whatsoever.

The lady from "La Familia" told Eynar that she didn't trust the gringos sending money to rent the house and give a weekly allowance.
Telling her that we have people from all over the world: the US, Europe, Canada and beyond, both male and female made her even more suspicious.

Now she's convinced that an international organization is after the Nicaraguan children to harvest their organs (!).

I wish I was making this all up, but I'm affraid that it is the sad reality, and Jose Angel is the victim of his succes.

I hope you'll be getting out soon buddy... Hang in there!