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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.

Gioconda Belli: Putting Myself in a Man’s Shoes

Writer, political activist and well-known feminist Gioconda Belli says that “it took an act of empathy” to write her latest novel from a male point of view. In her new work, Fevers of Memory, the protagonist is a man – Charles Choiseul de Praslin.

Gioconda Belli: Neither Forgive nor Forget?

The next stage of the struggle in Nicaragua must lead to defining an organization that can bind together and legitimize the self-organized movement; a body that succeeds in uniting us around proposals and ideals that move away from the failures that we’ve experienced.

Gioconda Belli: The New Year Arrives for Nicaragua

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.

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.

Gioconda Belli: “We Must Avoid Another War in Nicaragua”

According to the well-known feminist poet, Gioconda Belli, the international community must “act for the good of the Nicaraguans and convince Ortega that in this century there can no longer be tyrants who try to lock a country in a cage and throw the key out to the sea.”

Gioconda Belli Comments on the Dilemmas of Nicaraguan Private Enterprise

A few days ago, I called a businessman friend who is usually a jokester. I didn’t expect that when I asked him how he was, he would answer – “very depressed”, then be unable to continue any further. His voice broke, and I could hear that hoarse sobbing that emerges when men don’t want to cry but can’t hold it back.

Gioconda Belli Writes to Rosario Murillo

“I don’t know what we could expect from you, a mother who showed no pity for her own daughter, flesh of your flesh and blood of your blood. But even amid the grief of over 170 deaths, you haven’t stopped the lies, nor felt any scruples…”