Marc Brown, Director of Sales at Rancho Santana, an opulent 7,200 acre resort in the Western part of Nicaragua, explains why location and timing put Nicaragua at the front of the curve for foreign direct investment in real estate. Tourism in Nicaragua now surpasses Costa Rica, whose growth over the last dozen years has made it the model for other tourist driven economies. Nicaragua was late to the game. Civil war between the Sandanistas and Contras, lack of jobs, and extreme poverty caused mass emigrations between 1990 and 2010. Free elections and a succession of leaders from a wealthy upper
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