In episode 13, I'm speaking with Jacob Gandolfi about his service in Nicaragua from 2017-2018. Jake served in a rural community in southern Nicaragua and stayed with a host family who he became very close to throughout service. Jake was evacuated from Nicaragua, along with his fellow volunteers, when Peace Corps service was suspended in Nicaragua due to political instability. 

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Recommended Resources: 

Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua by Stephen Kinzer, which details the Nicaraguan Civil War

Anything by Ruben Dario, who is a Nicaraguan poet, national hero, and father of the Spanish literary movement modernismo