Interviews Archives - Page 15 of 146

Daisy Zamora: “We’re Exiled from the Country We Yearn For”

The winner of the Casa de America” prize warns that education and culture in Nicaragua is dominated by the “dictators’ personality cult.”

Anything can happen to us,” yet the bishops “issue no statements. We feel like sheep without a shepherd,” says a banished priest.

Giovanni Olmos assures that in Panama they are awaiting a ruling from the Supreme Court for unconstitutionality and calls for a dialogue.

The first lesson from the failures of the 1979 revolution and the transition in the 90s is the lack of justice & an inclusive democratic model

“The large public works projects – highways, streets, schools are assigned to so-and-so,” according to orders from the FSLN in Managua.

“I insist that there’s a window here, and we must try to keep that window open, and hopefully turn it into a door.”

Government spokeswoman Arleen Rodriguez formulated the questions in a way more to do with public relations management than journalism.

I don’t know Legna in person, that’s why I say I imagine her, although we have spoken on WhatsApp and this interview came about.

Edgar Gutierrez, Guatemala’s former foreign minister believes Bernardo Arevalo’s election is legitimate, but it’s caught “in the crossfire.”

By the end of an Israeli ground invasion, “you will see that we are standing exactly in the place that we stood one week ago.”