One of the most noteworthy news items of the last few days has been the United States government’s imposition of sanction on the presidential couple’s son and on the Ortega family’s bank, known as Bancorp (Banco Corporativo, or Corporate Bank).
Read MoreThere are many people outside of Cuba rejoicing at the news that US president Donald Trump will lift the waiver on Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, place travel restrictions on US citizens for non-family related reasons and reduce remittances to the island.
Read MoreThis is how April 2018 began: a fire, young people raising their voices and the repressive response of the Ortega government to stop any demonstration that would alter its “normality.”
Read MoreThe image of euphoric protestors celebrating the fall of the first “Chayopalo”, one of the omnipresent metal “trees of life” imposed by Rosario Murillo, on the third day of the civic protest, revived in my memory the same sense of liberation that I lived some 40 years ago when the statue of Somoza García on a horse came crashing down.
Read MoreOne night, my parents seemed worried. “What will we do if everything is Russian here? Everything, even the wood on this cot.” This was at the onset of what would be called the “Special Period”.
Read MoreDuring 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.
Read MoreThe level of political maturity and awareness of the people in Nicaragua has been surprising and a new political culture has been seen before all of us. It is because we learned from the past, and the April, 2018, uprising has left us its lessons, here some of them:
Read MoreIt’s easy to look back and view with clarity what’s happened in Nicaragua, but in 2018, when we were running from the bullets, we couldn’t even imagine many of the things that we’d be experiencing.
Read MoreToday I visited my sister Lucia Pineda Ubau for the first time in the prison “La Esperanza,” in Tipitapa. I really wanted to see her, but I feared what I would feel when I saw her.
Read MoreWe faced an unprecedented repression unleashed by the Ortega/Murillo dictatorship, with paramilitaries and an entire state apparatus, which has been difficult to assimilate by our generation, raised under a false democracy.
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