by J. Hanson
When H.C. Kang arrived in Mexico to start up operations for a Korean textile firm, his first move was to get help from the government agency charged with helping foreign investors. Three years later, when he was hired to check out Central America for the US-based Popular Textiles, he tried to find the Nicaraguan equivalent. He couldn’t find one. He came to Nicaragua anyway, at the invitation of a Zona Franca industrial park developer. But by the time Kang’s plane landed in Managua, the developer’s project had been put on hold. Despairing of what to do with his guests, the would-be developer dropped them off at the office of ProNicaragua, an investment promotion agency, bringing Kang right to the door of the agency for which he had been looking.
