That's basically what it looked like all day Saturday in Poneloya, the beach near Leon where I, my two roommates, and friend Anne spent the weekend. We're at the tail end of the rainy season here, and it has been a doozy. As if the damage caused by Hurricane Felix wasn't enough, the entire Pacific region has taken a beating over the last two weeks, and now there is concern that the country could be facing a serious food insecurity problem for the coming year due to the destruction of so much of this period's harvest. Even my coworkers with middle class incomes have been telling me that prices on basic foodstuffs are rising quite rapidly, to the point where many people already cannot afford to buy beans for every day consumption.
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