Word has it that Michael Vick, the quarterback for the US National Football League’s Atlanta Falcons, recently indicted on charges related to dogfights, has crossed Nicaragua off his list of countries to visit. Last June, the National Assembly amended the Penal Code to sanction people who organize such spectacles for fun or profit with up to two years in prison. Cockfights, however, are still allowed because they are a “tradition.” George Orwell’s Animal Farm lives on in new Nicaraguan legislation.
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