On January 1st, time gives us 365 days in blank. How will those 8,760 hours be filled in this homeland besieged by the storm of a people blowing winds of change against the closed gate of stubbornness and cruelty of its rulers? What have they gained in these months? Their victories are pyrrhic, deceitful, fragile victories.
Read MoreToday, just hours before 2018 comes to an end, somebody asked me: what do you want the most next year? And I replied: I wish for Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo’s government in Nicaragua to end immediately, for this is a government that has lost all credibility and has become a UNIVERSAL EMBARASSMENT.
Read MoreTo try and make the new president Miguel Diaz Canel “popular”, they have even planned several trips to the provinces, with contacts with the locals and TV cameras focused on him, giving his duties a great deal of coverage, as a president who takes action with new energy. They are selling us an image, that’s it.
Read MoreCuban cultural policy is exclusive, it doesn’t include those who don’t jump through institutional hoops or stick within socialist conventions. Anyone who doesn’t hold a state license to exercise a profession, which is private in most cases, remains outside of this circle.
Read MoreThis year I have shed so many tears, both for acquaintances and for strangers. This year I have also seen how little Nicaragua seems to mean to the rest of the world, even as I saw demonstrations of solidarity take place in hundreds of places across the globe.
Read MoreThere are earthquakes that follow other earthquakes. Today in Nicaragua, we’re not living through a movement of the earth as in 1972, but another kind of tremor has left families equally in mourning, buildings shuttered, lives splintered, children left orphaned.
Read MoreThe new draft Constitution, being proposed to Cubans in a referendum set for February, 2019, is being debated between two dichotomous positions that are forced to stand side by side: change and continuity. Two slight amendments can be seen as early on as Article 5 and become a symbol of this rivalry.
Read MoreUntil April, 2018,, Nicaragua enjoyed the benefits of an undeserved reputation as a haven of peace. The indicators of violence provided by the Police -probably skewed-, but of widespread credibility-, placed Nicaragua slightly above Costa Rica and many homicides below its neighbors to the north. As for the interests of the USA, Nicaragua was a country of little importance.
Read MoreSome have not understood that Ortega and Murillo are in fact fighting a war against the civic resistance of the people, against their organizations and networks; everything that moves, protests or thinks is the enemy and will be beaten, locked up and eliminated. You think this is an exaggeration?
Read MoreEver since 1998, when Rosario Murillo chose to defend her powerful husband – accused by her daughter and his stepdaughter of 19 years of rape and sexual abuse-, she’s had her gaze fixed on power. Even 20 years ago, she knew that if the FSLN and Daniel Ortega managed to get back into the presidency the road would be paved for her to come next. And it happened… (98 photos)
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