Criminal violence has come dramatically to the forefront in contemporary Latin America, to the extent it is widely considered the critical social concern of the present day, a 2009 study by Gareth Jones and Dennis Rodgers says.
"There are strong rumours that Daniel Ortega owns a lot of the free trade infrastructure in Nicaragua," said Dennis Rodgers, Senior Research Fellow at the Brooks World Poverty Institute and a professor at the University of Manchester. "He certainly owns some key hotels."