Attacking The Banks

President Daniel Ortega's calls for indebted farmers to hold protests against high interest rates by microfinance banks has been taken quite literally by some debtors, as evidenced by a string of attacks. At the start of December nine Nicaraguan farmers were sentenced to between three and five years in prison for an armed assault on the Local Development Fund - a bank focusing on lending to the poor.

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