The Strategy of Termites
The current FSLN administration promotes itself as a pro-poor government, and rallies its supporters with the threat that the current opposition would not be as beneficial to the poor as…
The Complaint of the Exiles: National Strike and More Representation
This is an account of the incident among Nicaraguan exiles in a meeting on July 28, 2019 in Costa Rica from the viewpoint of one of the panelists, Félix Maradiaga,…
“The Alliance should listen to the people” says Doña Francisca, peasant leader
On July 28, 2019 Hagamos Democracia, an Nicaraguan NGO whose legal status was revoked by the Nicaraguan government in December, invited Nicaraguans in exile to a meeting. Nicaraguan exiles who…
Homegrown fascism is what Nicaragua has
This is an important current assessment given the background of the author, his intimate knowledge of Daniel Ortega, and touches on a number of important and sensitive topics: the role…
Professor Gabriel Putoy: “Commissioner Avellán hit me in the forehead with an AK 47”
Monimbó, Masaya has always been a Sandinista stronghold, so it was somewhat surprising when it was one of the neighborhoods that most strongly protested the government´s brutal response to the…
Social Inequality
By any reckoning, any resolution to the current crisis will still leave a very polarized society. In fact current government pronouncements fuel the polarization by continuing to refer to the…