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“Here Was Granada” (1856) & “Here Was Nicaragua” (2020)

William Walker inscribed on the ruins of the city he had burned: “Here was Granada”. Now, the expression may instead be: “Here was Nicaragua”.

The escalation of violence in Nicaragua is a more than worrying, a truly alarming phenomenon…

The factors that drove the social unrest of 2019 remain and, in many ways, have been exacerbated by the COVID pandemic.

A democratic state must respect and tolerate any religious beliefs & investigate attacks like the ones perpetrated against the Catholic Church.

A Biden presidency would have a different reality in negotiating with Havana than Obama had in 2014.

The family Ortega-Murillo government in Nicaragua has proven to be highly skilled at blaming its victims for their own demise or destruction.

Nicaraguan journalists continue to live fateful days, the attacks against them do not cease.

Leal knew the cogs of the system and used them well. To do this, he had to bite his tongue on some things, but lots of us did…

Rapping as a whisper like when we speak quietly so that nobody can hear what we are saying, fits perfectly…

To build a more just society, the first step is finding a way out of this dictatorship through peaceful, non-violent struggle.