The 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.
Read MoreIt’s not only the Left that takes an authoritarian turn. The same thing plagues the Right when it feels threatened and its radical/tyrannical wing end up flourishing
Read MoreHow are we living through and surviving this crisis and how will we build the country’s future through a movement that respects human rights and encourages diversity?
Read MoreI was on the way with my partner to a recreational center thinking about relaxing and taking a swim in the pool. However, then, from the bus window we saw CHICKEN and had to make a choice.
Read MoreThe story we are relaying today didn’t take place in a church or a US classroom, it happened in Cuba, a country where its government brags about being revolutionary.
Read MoreWe all asked for changes, but never thought of demanding, living and writing them. April is a month that brings with it a lot of dry heat in Nicaragua and the winds of revolution.
Read MoreSince I left Nicaragua on June 8, 2018, I have dedicated myself to resolving my life outside of my comfort zone and to write about what I feel, from my privilege of being outside and the pain of being away.
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