Entry Posted April 26, 2007
http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/592.cfm Managua, in Nicaragua, a city of 2 million people, has functioned without formal street addresses since an earthquake over 30 years ago. (Old story, but this still seems to be the case.) 12:19
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