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Gioconda Belli: “I carry Nicaragua with me, and no one can take it away”

“I always say that my country is so small it’s portable; I carry it with me, and no one can take it away from me,” the author stated.

Gioconda Belli presents her novel “A Silence Full of Murmurs.” The work “is about the human conflict of how much one sacrifices for a dream.”

History runs its course, but in the end, Murillo’s Constitution will be repudiated, just like its creators, and they will not be eternal.

“I have a clear awareness of the extremely important role of women in history, and that we still do not occupy the place that belongs to us”.

The worst dictatorship in Latin America sets itself up as Germany’s accuser and a shining light for Palestinians.

“The word is dangerous to those in power. Here we are, Sergio Ramirez & myself. They took away our nationality & confiscated our belongings”

“I believe that what I have dreamt & what I have done is going to give fruit eventually. I cannot rush history. History moves in its own way”

“The public, the private, emotions, are much more present in who women are all the time. I believe that’s what my poetry reflects…”

With Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy they will perform a retrospective of music & poetry linked to the history of a country under two dictatorships.

Citizens don’t protest today in Nicaragua because “they can kill them. The regime’s only strength is the army and the police.”