BY JEREMY SHERE From IU’s diverse faculty and student body to East 4th Street’s bevy of ethnic restaurants, Bloomington has a strong multicultural flavor. Just as significant, but less well known, is Bloomington’s longstanding relationship with its sister cities, Posoltega, Nicaragua, and Santa Clara, Cuba. (A third sister city connection, with LuChou Province in Taiwan, has been largely inactive for the past several years.) Bloomington’s history with Posoltega, a small municipality in western Nicaragua, began in 1988 and intensified a decade later when Hurricane Mitch badly damaged the town. A Bloomington delegation took medical supplies, food, and other types of aid to its sister city. Since then a local committee has continued to develop the relationship by organizing trips to [...]

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