Opinion

Nicaragua: The School Girl Who Threw a Rock at the Police

I’ve watched the video of the students from the “Republic of Argentina” school in Managua, showing a young girl throwing a rock towards one of the Police mercenaries from the Ortega-Murillo regime. In addition to recording her on his cellphone, he then pulls out his gun threatens her and the rest of the young teens accompanying her in a transitory student rebellion.

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Open Letter to the Sandinistas who Support Daniel Ortega

There was a time, the time I come from, when being a Sandinista meant putting your life on the line. It was a time when the FSLN was a clandestine organization, and belonging to it was a secret that only you knew: a time where Somoza proclaimed, “Sandinista seen, Sandinista dead”. Many of our companeros died in those years when the FSLN was being shaped.

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Dictatorships, Truth and Justice: What Awaits Nicaragua?

Probably, many Nicaraguans from younger generations ignore that until a few decades ago most of the Latin American countries were governed by military dictatorships, sustained by a geopolitical concept called “national security doctrine.” Each one of these societies tried to close the wounds provoked by such dictatorships however…

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Cuban Doctors Being Pulled Out of Brazil: a Hasty Decision?

I believe that it would be a good idea if our country had a health services company for matters abroad. It’s a good business for health professionals and for the country, making the most of a strength, which is very pricey in many aspects, achieved by the Revolution. The military and slave-like treatment of doctors is wrong, not only in regard to their wages.

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Gioconda Belli: Celebrating the Rebelliousness of My Compatriots

“At this juncture how can I not ask myself if it was worth it to have given over my youth and a large part of my life to a revolution that I saw as the most beautiful thing that could possibly happen to me? The horror of the events that have occurred in Nicaragua since April 18th, when a citizen protest was violently repressed, doesn’t cease to astonish me.

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Honor for Those Who Suffer in the Name of Freedom

A specter is terrifying Cuba, it’s the ghost of independent art. The Communist State and its pack of ferocious hounds have joined forces against this ghost, as if the world’s eyes weren’t always watching Cuba, or as if art were something unconnected to the human condition.

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Nicaragua’s Banks and the Real Estate Bubble

Ravel’s Bolero is a unique piece of music, especially since once you hear it, it’s enough for a lifetime. This piece begins with a soft melody and increases its tone until it becomes an unbearable noise. So have decisions been made in Nicaragua’s financial crisis.

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