Ortega and Murillo Accelerate Chinese Business Expansion in Nicaragua · Global Voices

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In mid-July 2025, a teenage girl wondered at a Chinese jewelry store in the Roberto Huembes Market, one of Managua’s most crowded shops. She walked through corridors packed with Asian merchandise until she stopped in the cosmetics area, fascinated by bright colors and packed with incomprehensible letters for her. She took a lipstick, ready to buy it, but the owner of the establishment, a Chinese woman who could hardly say “hello” in Spanish, reb…