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• Nicaragua

  Ernesto Cardenal: Science Fuels the Writing, and Faith, of a Nicaraguan Poet

  February 2015, 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 (...)

• Nicaragua

  Nicaragua Now

  15 January 2010, 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 (...)

• Nicaragua

  Nicaragua: a defeat for the United States but no victory for the Left

  20 November 2006, 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, (...)

• Nicaragua

  Nicaragua, before the elections: From Sandinismo to “Danielismo”

  1 November 2006, 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 (...)