Gioconda Belli

The Ortega-Murillo regime has us under so much repression because it is possessed by fear of its own people.

The Ortega-Murillo response to the origin and scope of the 2018 April Rebellion was to concoct a Big Lie, to evade their own responsibility.

In world statistics, Nicaragua appears to be an amazing country in terms of women’s participation in decision-making. Is it real or fantasy?

The State demands that we register as “foreign agents” and none of us, writers committed to freedom, accept this imposition.

First, let’s open the road. If we do that, there’ll be time and institutions enough for those who want water to fill their own cups.

I yearn for a return to the days of community. I hope that the virtual world – the networks, the

It’s not the same to lead marches or resist in barricades, however heroic that may be, than to deal with daily political processes…

I mourn physical deaths, but also the deceit that has made them multiply. This virus does not differentiate between Sandinistas and non-Sandinistas.

The pandemic finds us already under siege from that other disease: fear, and the insecurity that surrounds our lives and threatens our freedom.