Ortega Deletes Citizenship & Confiscates 94 More Nicaraguans
The list includes the director of Confidencial, Carlos F. Chamorro, Bishop Silvio Baez; authors Sergio Ramirez & Gioconda Belli and Human Rights icon Vilma Nuñez
The list includes the director of Confidencial, Carlos F. Chamorro, Bishop Silvio Baez; authors Sergio Ramirez & Gioconda Belli and Human Rights icon Vilma Nuñez
Exiled Nicaraguan writer Gioconda Belli, on a visit to Sweden, denounced the inhumane treatment of Daniel Ortega’s the political prisoners.
I’m writing in the name of many people who are grateful for Gioconda Belli’s article “The struggle that lies before us” that was published in Havana Times on November 5th: It’s a courageous post that touches a sore point in this issue of unity that concerns many of us.
A poem by Gioconda Belli, dedicated to the political prisoners of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
The following is writer and poet Gioconda Belli’s homage to Jesuit father Fernando Cardenal who passed away on February 20th in Managua, Nicaragua.
Gioconda Belli: “The dictatorship Daniel Ortega is reestablishing in Nicaragua is not like Somoza’s. What he is repeating is the formula that failed in the eighties, this time with a liberal economy and illusory freedom of the press enjoyed by only a few media.”
“We reject the repression directed against citizen protests and the regime’s attempts to falsify the election results,” they affirm.
As time goes by, it is obvious that she has not, nor will she ever, banish us from her mind and her nightmares.
“To have one’s country taken away, to have the doors of return closed, will always be a sorrow. One must know how to endure it,” says Ramirez
A poem dedicated to the banished religious leaders.