Jose Luis Rocha’s View of Nicaragua’s 2018 Rebellion
Well-known sociologist and researcher Jose Luis Rocha passed away in Guatemala on the last day of 2023, leaving a huge vacuum.
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Despite Hurdles, UCA Recovers and Reposts Envio’s Archives
All the information published over the magazine’s 40-year history from the now-shuttered UCA, are at its new web address: revistaenvio.org.
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The Autumn of the Patriarchy in Nicaragua
Ortega is an agrarian patriarch. He may be the last cacique of that species. Reflections from a Central America that is ever less agrarian.
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Political Segregation in the Nicaragua of Ortega and Murillo
If you sow segregations, you will reap more rebellions. There is no doubt that many red and black will turn blue and white.
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Catholic Church Denounces “Criminalization of Protest” in Nicaragua
The criminalization of protest in Nicaragua is the most serious threat to peace and freedom, according to a message from the Justice and Peace Commission of the Archdiocese of Managua, presided by Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes.
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Nicaragua in Black and White
Among the dozens of photos that the days of repression against the “vandalizers” have left us, one of the most iconic shows six elderly men sitting at a table while one on foot paces left to right with a leaden step, as if presenting a tableau of the trajectory of the FSLN leadership.
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Nicaragua: Self-Amnesties Don’t Last
“God helps those who help themselves”, is the title of a collection of proverbs that Carlos Monsivais published as a book. The Ortega government has brought to light their own version of helping yourself, passed on Saturday, June 8th, in the form of a new parliamentary initiative: the amnesty law.
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Nicaragua’s El Chipote Prison: The Ax Survives its Owner
During last April’s insurrection, the old detention and torture center was back in business. An FSLN party flag overlooks El Chipote, stained with the blood of a diversity of dissidents of different caliber: journalists, press directors, students, workers and farmers.
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Nicaragua, Venezuela and Human Sacrifices on the Left
During the cold war Latin American gorillas murdered, disappeared and imprisoned -in the name of anti-communism- citizens subjugated under their boots. Now the leaders of the left massacre us in the name of socialism and anti-imperialism because the people must be punished when they are so stupid as not to recognize what benefits them and when they spit the hands of their liberators.
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Daniel Ortega and Jimmy Morales Face Supranational Powers
Morales wants to install a dictatorial power opposing other powers of the State (the Constitutional Court, the Prosecutor’s Office), Ortega has a consolidated dictatorship, although tottering. Their modus operandi unite them, above and below their supposed ideological differences.
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