Gioconda Belli: Ortega’s accusation against Sergio Ramírez is malicious
Gioconda Belli called the accusation against the writer, novelist & former vice-president of Nicaragua Sergio Ramírez, “shameful & vengeful.”
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Nicaragua’s Brain Drain Worries Writer Gioconda Belli
Nicaraguan poet & author Gioconda Belli expressed her concern for the flight of human capital in Nicaragua with the stepped-up repression.
Invitation: Encounter with Margaret Randall & Gioconda Belli
Here’s a personal invitation from Randall and flyers about both the discussion on her archives and memoirs and the public conversation with Gioconda Belli.
Gioconda Belli: An Undervalued Battle Trench
The pandemic finds us already under siege from that other disease: fear, and the insecurity that surrounds our lives and threatens our freedom.
Gioconda Belli: Quarantine Afternoon
Reading Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore. During this pandemic and the resulting confinement, there’s one fundamental revelation: the necessity of art.
Gioconda Belli: “Ernesto Cardenal’s Poetry Inspired Our Youth”
Sergio Ramirez: Ernesto Cardenal “created a model for Spanish-language poetry.” “Cosmic Canticle” is his great final work.
Gioconda Belli: One Swallow Doesn’t Make a Summer; or Does It?
Recognizing past mistakes is a valuable exercise because they provide lessons that can be shared, so that the same mistakes aren’t repeated.
Gioconda Belli’s Questions for Rosario Murillo
Do you want to go down in history like Margaret Thatcher, one of the world’s most enduring emblems of a conservative for the right?
Gioconda Belli: “Let’s Aim for Unity in Action”
I don’t know how much importance can be given to the refusal by Ortega-Murillo to continue with the dialogue. I think that at the international level the announcement will act like a boomerang that will fall on them.
Gioconda Belli: “It’s Time to Pound on the Table”
We must stop this irrational cruelty, and force this government to confront the harm they’re causing. Self-interest must be put aside in favor of exercising our moral or economic power before this dire sequence of events sinks us even further into the labyrinth of disgrace.