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.
Read MoreIt’s crucial these days to keep our eyes wide open as regards the government maneuverings to delegitimize the popular rebellion in Nicaragua.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreI don’t know if it was out of scorn or morbidity, but Somoza used to publish the photos of dead Sandinista guerrillas on the front pages of the newspapers. These photos would show the bodies riddled with bullets, their faces nearly unrecognizable. For those of us who were their comrades in the struggle, their close friends, nearly family, the photos were devastating.
Read MoreEvery day we read about the marvels that are coming to Managua to alleviate the blockages and traffic jams: overpasses, widening of the Juan Pablo II highway, bicycle lanes, etc. It all sounds lovely, but the Mayor’s office has to turn its eyes towards how to maintain the functionality of these modernized, widened roadways.
Read MoreThe accusation against the remaining independent press from Nicaragua’s Superior Council of Private Enterprise (COSEP), appears to be the product of a paranoia that has been very well aimed towards co-opting them into squelching the small measure of free expression that still exists.
Read MoreThis year has begun with gusts of wind and storm clouds, as if nature were echoing the political events that we’re witnessing. “Thank God” proclaim the signs that have been celebrating the “Times of Victories” since months before the election of Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreThe hardening noted in the last few weeks is a direct consequence of the problems that Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela is having with an opposition ever more able to call attention to responsibilities and poor management, and with increasing popular support.
Read MoreOn a superficial level, Daniel Ortega’s government takes the prize in changing things, as compared with previous governments: the center of Managua is as bright and cheerful as an amusement park. Many have been seduced by this brilliant and eccentric make-up and this new version of a popular piñata in which they give away sheets of zinc roofing, production bonuses, graduation bonuses and parties.
Read MoreThe following is writer and poet Gioconda Belli’s homage to Jesuit father Fernando Cardenal who passed away on February 20th in Managua, Nicaragua.
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