, by LA BOTZ Dan
The popular rebellion against the dictatorial government of Daniel Ortega, four-time president of Nicaragua, has been going on now for more than a month. And the Ortega government has continued its violent repression. In the last 47 days, it is reported that 104 people have been killed, while (...)
, by HANSON Lori, HICKS Jack
Canadian internationalist feminist Lori Hanson, who has been working in solidarity with rural Nicaraguans for more than 30 years, has just returned from Nicaragua. Jack Hicks interviewed her for New Socialist. Together, they crafted this piece based on the interview and an article Lori (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Nicaraguan Government Kills 24 – Students, Farmers Call for National Strikes.
The government of former revolutionary and Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega has in the last few days killed at least 24 protestors who were demonstrating against sudden and drastic alterations in a new pension law, (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
For many years now Nicaraguans on both the right and the left have referred to Daniel Ortega, a leader of the Sandinista Revolution of 1979, as a “dictator.” Now it appears that when country votes on November 6, he may succeed in becoming the country’s virtual monarch. Dan La Botz, author of the (...)
, by MALKINJAN Elisabeth
MEXICO CITY — ERNESTO CARDENAL is a poet and a priest, a revolutionary and a mystic. His poetry speaks of Marilyn Monroe and Charles Darwin, of Spanish conquistadors and pre-Columbian gods. Science saturates his writing.
“Science brings me close to God because it describes the universe and (...)
, by ROSS Clifton
Daniel Alegría still thinks of himself as a Sandinista, “a Sandinista, no Orteguista.” He looks pretty much the same as he did when I first met him at Comedor Sara in January, 1984 where he spent his evenings drinking beer and talking politics with the internacionalistas who gathered there in the (...)
, by BURBACH Roger
The Sandinistas’ road to power was paved with a series of previously unthinkable pacts with the old somocista and Contra opposition.
Upon his inauguration as Nicaraguan president in January 2007, Daniel Ortega asserted that his government would represent “the second stage of the Sandinista (...)
, by BENDANA Alejandro
Did the left lose? Not quite. One might first ask what is the left, what does it mean to be left in 2006, what does it mean to be left in 2006 in Nicaragua, and is the victorious Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) that left? This is not to fall into a post-modernist relativist trap, (...)
, by BALTODANO Mónica
EDITOR’S NOTE: Nicaraguans will go to the polls to choose the country’s next president and the National Assembly on November 5. The presidential candidates include Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), candidates from two U.S.-backed right-wing parties, and the (...)
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