Gioconda Belli

Who among those who love them doesn’t owe them something: their job, their wealth, the empty epaulettes on their General’s uniform?

It’s the expression of a fearful, paranoid power that fears spaces for free expression that could feed thoughts & broaden horizons…

The public resignation of the Ambassador of Nicaragua to the OAS, Arturo McFields, had the impact of armed guerrilla actions of the past.

Hugo Torres’ death demonstrates the soullessness that reigns in Nicaragua these days. His death was the final drop in the poisonous cup…

Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo will be inaugurated to continue being the rulers of a country whose society they have fractured.

Didn’t that same OAS, that they’re now calling a “cesspool”, once emit a statement against the Somoza government negotiated by the FSLN?

Nicaragua deserves writers like Sergio. What it doesn’t deserve is the cruel, coarse, and mediocre dictatorship that we unfortunately have.

They’ll be proclaiming they won the elections, but what they’ll really have won is the gold medal for the most extraordinary spectacle.

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