‘Mango, Mango!’ A Family, a Fruit Stand, and Survival on $4.50 a Day

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Eye-opening new Longreads Exclusive from our friends at Orion Magazine. Welcome to the Walmart of Nicaragua.

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Douglas Haynes | Orion | Summer 2014 | 22 minutes (5,391 words)

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Morning

“It’s like this here every day,” Dayani Baldelomar Bustos tells me as her dark eyes scan the packed alley for an opening. People carrying baskets of produce on their heads press against our backs.

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