Casa de Ben Linder

Managua


This cultural center that formally served the English-speaking volunteer community, has been taken over by the Jubilee House Community and turned into a guesthouse, with an attached museum of revolutionary art. Meantime, call ahead and stop by to see the amazing murals, some dedicated to Ben Linder, an American activist killed in Nicaragua in 1987.


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