Sent to Puerto Rico for the New York Herald Tribune, in 1959, he shot rats at the San Juan city dump until he was arrested.

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Puracal, a 35-year-old from Washington state, has been behind bars since August 2010, when Nicaraguan authorities raided his real estate office in the coastal tourist city of San Juan del Sur.

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San Juan, Puerto Rico's biggest city, "is the sexy younger sister of New York, " says Sotirios Kotoulas, a Canadian-born New York architect and professor at the University of Puerto Rico.

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The 20 female participants of the workshop hailed from regions across the country, including Rio San Juan, Bocana de Paiwas, El Rama, Jinotega, La Dalia, Somoto and the capital city of Managua.

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