The responses of the presidential couple to the events of the week of April 18th were so contrary to how one might expect you can’t help but wonder if they have already lost all connection with reality.
In one blow, amid the sound of shattering glass, the opinion polls, the assurances, the belief that they were governing with the support and approval of the majority, all crashed down.
Nicaraguan poet Gioconda Belli expressed her fear Tuesday that the Government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo “criminalizes” the right to criticism and freedom of expression through social networks, approving laws similar to those of Venezuela.
Author Gioconda Belli urged narrators and poets gathered in Granada, Nicaragua for the annual International Poetry Festival to exercise the power of the word “against all odds” to defend the world from racists and fanatics.
The following is a poem from Nicaraguan poet and novelist Gioconda Belli on the different trees of Managua, some live, some metallic.
It must be incredible to come back from the dead. That’s what Fidel has done, one more entry in his book of innumerable combats. I have a journalist friend in California, an expert in all things Cuban, who has been waiting four years for Fidel to die just so she can despair.
The night before, the police raided Belli’s home seeking to capture him. Expecting an attempt to arrest him, Belli had left into exile.
The world is witnessing with astonishment a series of popular rebellions: France, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Chile, Hong Kong, Iraq, Lebanon, Bolivia, and Haiti have seen multitudinous protests, each with its particular origin, that have provoked diverse responses.
Gioconda Belli said that her poetry embraced her “this afternoon when the theft of my house by the dictatorship was consummated.”
The Ortega-Murillo dictatorship fears the leadership of the released prisoners, agree Francisca Ramirez, Gioconda Belli and Ernesto Medina