Nicaragua: Lowest Wages in Central America
Nicaraguan workers are the worst paid across Central America, according to a report issued Thursday in Managua by the national human rights center.

The low salary adds to the fact that Nicaraguan workers have the worst access to health and education in the region.

The four-month strike by doctors and health staff demanding wage improvements illustrates best this situation in the nation, the report says.

Health workers and physicians want salaries similar to those of their Central American colleagues, around 1,500 dollars a month.

Even worse are other social sectors in which over 70 percent of the people live with less than two dollars a day.

According to the report, the 2006 budget shows that the bad distribution of economic resources influences social rights violations.

While the Executive assigned more than 200 million dollars to pay the domestic debt with local banks and almost 80 million for the foreign one, it only gave 23 million to improve salaries of the public employees.