Words are my machete
2019 Agosto Nicaragua
Those whose calling is to write were readers first. It’s practically a law. My father was a journalist, and his workspace was packed with books. I...

Nicaragua in Eduardo Galeano’s words
2015 Mayo Nicaragua
The book that first made Galeano famous was The Open Veins of Latin America, his 1971 essay on the history of Latin America’s economic pillage and...

SPECIAL - Thirty years of envío: The road traveled so far
2011 Diciembre Nicaragua
We are celebrating our birthday today. Three decades. Thirty years. They say that’s proof of maturity. We were born in February 1981, with the revolution,...

The Constant Potter
2009 Mayo Nicaragua
The auditorium of Managua’s Central American University (UCA) was beyond standing room that September 6th Saturday. The smell of wet earth, drenched...

Notes on a Scandal Of Historic Proportions
2007 Octubre Nicaragua
2006, October: A number of Sandinista women with the ear of FSLN National Assembly representatives tell them they have committed a gross human...

Rosa in the Land of Lovelessness
2007 Septiembre Nicaragua
Rosa, the only child of an illiterate Nicaraguan peasant couple working in Costa Rica who risked death in January-February 2003 due to a rape-induced...

A Dramatic Change and A Cultural Tragedy
2006 Noviembre Nicaragua
On October l6, Nicaragua’s Catholic bishops, accompanied by the leaders of some evangelical denominations, held a march against abortion in the streets...

A Train Ride Through Memory and History
2006 Octubre Nicaragua
In August 2005, Jan Kees de Rooy—a Dutch-born Nicaraguan national who always thinks big—called to tell me about a dream he was working on in the Institute...

The Words of Women from “Nicaragua’s Navel”
2006 Julio Nicaragua
Bocana de Paiwas is the navel of Nicaragua and, although the Bible doesn’t say so, it’s also the earthly paradise,” explain the women from this corner...

Interrupting Pregnancy: Deciding between Life and Life
2006 Junio Nicaragua
Abortion is a vital and controversial topic. It’s always important to include the religious perspective when we think, speak, debate and make proposals...

El Güegüense: Heritage of Humanity
2005 Diciembre Nicaragua
In the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, UNESCO defines intangible cultural heritage as “the practices,...

Are Mothers of Sexually Abused Girls Really to Blame?
2005 Octubre Centroamérica
In June 2001, the Nicaraguan media latched on to the case of Gema, a little girl who became pregnant after being raped by a stranger, and probably also...

Survivors’ Words: A New Tool for Nicaragua
2005 Abril Nicaragua
Sexual abuse is epidemic—or, perhaps more precisely, endemic—in Nicaragua. In just a short time, evidence of this has been making its way into people’s...

Monsignor Romero’s Portrait In My Memory And in History
2005 Marzo Centroamérica
I went to El Salvador for the first time in 1981, barely a year after Monsignor Romero was assassinated. Almost everyone I spoke with had an interesting,...

The Wounds of Sexual Abuse
2001 Septiembre Nicaragua
On the periphery of the globalized world, Nicaragua struggles as best it can for democracy and development, longing to reach these two closely-linked...

The Silence about Incest Needs to Be Broken
2000 Septiembre Nicaragua
Incest is an immensely serious problem in Nicaragua, as it is in the rest of Central America and in fact in the world as a whole. Although the available...

Cuban Women's History--Jottings and Voices
1998 Noviembre Cuba
THE WAY WE WEREWomen's efforts to achieve equal rights with men have a long tradition in Cuba. Their struggles were almost always linked...

A Still-Present Past
1997 Diciembre Cuba
It is said that after Pope John Paul II visits Cuba, he will only have one great project left on his agenda, the greatest of all; cross the threshold...

The Religious Agenda For the Time of Crisis
1997 Diciembre Cuba
All economic crises turn into crises of values, and of conduct. A material crisis always makes the leap into a spiritual crisis. If in 1993 the Inter-American...

CUBA BRIEFS
1997 Diciembre Cuba
PART ONE: 1. African slavery in Cuba lasted almost four centuries. Between 1517, when the first group was unloaded, and 1873, when the last known...

1979: The Frontier
1997 Diciembre Cuba
The compass that oriented us to the history of Cuban religiosity in the first 20 years of the revolution pointed permanently to conflict, tension,...

Some Clues to Possible Scenarios
1997 Diciembre Cuba
John Paul II has made over 80 trips to other countries since becoming pope in 1978. The upcoming visit to Cuba (January) 21-25, 1998) could end up...

Cuban Civil Society: An Urgent Encyclopedia
1997 Agosto Cuba
To our readers: You may want to read this encyclopedia in alphabetical order, or search first for what particularly interests you, a la carte, as...

Twenty Issues For a Green Agenda
1996 Noviembre Cuba
A Cuban fable of african origin tells that one day, a tocoloro bird began to think about going in search of the end of the world. The first thing he...

Cuba: What Fell? What's Going Up?
1995 Junio Cuba
I returned home after a year, with all the expectations of so many people who are looking toward this island today. How much my country has changed....

The Media: Where Cuba Blockades Itself
1994 Noviembre Cuba
In August, the waters of the Florida Strait teemed with Cuban rafts and wire services teemed with interpretations of what was happening. Once again,...

Is Cuba Resisting or Retreating? (Part I)
1993 Septiembre Cuba
The Berlin wall fell and the foundations of Socialist Europe crumbled. Two years after the disintegration of the USSR, Russia once again hoisted the...

Cuba: The Making of the Cuban Elections (Part II)
1993 Septiembre Cuba
* In the context of expiatory sacrifices in the ritual traditions of Israel, the community's enormous interest in the sin of its individuals is also...

Bishop Romero's Baptism by the People
1993 Abril El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, February 10, 1977. The media officially confirmed today that the Vatican named Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero Galdámez to preside...