The Codes of Latin American Culture
2009 Noviembre América Latina
Like any other dimension of reality, the values that make up a society’s collective self-image need to be categorized to be analyzed. It is thus possible...
Rescuing and Renovating Sandinismo: A Critique of Nicaraguan Heroic Culture
2008 Julio Nicaragua
While it presents itself as a leftist option, the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) Alliance hasn’t succeeded in putting together a body of thought...
Marxism, Post-Marxism, Liberation Theology (Part 1) Reflections for a Re-encounter
2008 Enero América Latina
Liberation Theology’s reinterpretation of Jesus’ message is a landmark in Latin American historical development. It destabilized the providentialist...
Chávez’s Behavior at the Summit: Symptoms of Latin American Insecurity
2007 Diciembre América Latina
Everything that Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez said in his altercation with President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and King Juan Carlos of Spain at...
The Ignored Contradiction between Modern State and Providential God
2007 Julio América Latina
Aprovidential vision of God predominates in Latin America. While it is largely rooted in the Catholicism inherited from Spanish colonial times, it is...
“Gerardo Miranda And We the Thieves”
2007 Junio Nicaragua
Carlos Fernando Chamorro and the team of the Esta Semana current affairs television program have earned a place in the history of the fight against...
Reform or Revolution? And the Left’s Ethical Challenge
2007 Marzo América Latina
In February I had the chance to share ideas on the present and future of the Latin American Left with a group of friends and colleagues from the region...
How Can Consensus Be Reached When the Conflict Is Denied?
2006 Septiembre Nicaragua
In her book On the Political (2005), Chantal Mouffe offers a lucid analysis of what she calls the “post-conflict” vision of politics, but which...
Has a Neoliberal Democracy Been Institutionalized in Nicaragua?
2006 Julio Nicaragua
One of the crucial questions we should ask ourselves in Nicaragua’s current political context is whether a neoliberal democracy has been institutionalized...
International Cooperation and Civil Society: The High Price of Relations
2006 Junio Nicaragua
On May 27, Jürg Benz, the representative of Swiss cooperation in Nicaragua and coordinator of the European Union’s budgetary support group, announced...
A Challenge to Leftist Parties: Return to Marxism but Look Beyond It
2006 Mayo Nicaragua
What role can Marxist theory play in the reconstruction of the Latin American Left, particularly our Left here in Nicaragua? Is the Left’s future irreparably...
Our Youth Has Inherited A National Failure
2006 Abril Nicaragua
Like the generations that preceded it, I belong to a generation that failed to build a just and dignified Nicaragua for everyone. Asked to talk about...
Is National Sovereignty Possible In These Times of Globalization?
2006 Enero Nicaragua
Arenewed and democratic Sandinista movement has to assume the defense of Nicaragua’s national sovereignty as one of its main tasks. But what does that...
While the Left Is Modernizing, The Right Is Stagnating
2005 Diciembre Nicaragua
While it is true that “Left” as a political concept has lost programmatic clarity, this should not push us into tossing out its ethical-political meaning,...
The Left Nicaragua Needs
2005 Octubre Nicaragua
Nicaragua’s political parties have always been short on philosophical and doctrinal underpinnings. The pragmatic-resigned political thinking of Nicaraguan...
The Poisonous Recipe of Electoral Democracy Without Social Consensus
2005 Agosto Nicaragua
Nicaragua is suffering an unprecedented crisis of governance. Its post-revolutionary political transition has evolved into an electoral democracy that...
The US god, Bush's God, Nicaragua's God: How Do They Differ?
2005 Enero Internacional
George W. Bush’s reelection revealed some of the pro-found political and cultural tensions that have marked the history of the United States and, more...
Transforming the Idea of God Is an Urgent Task in Nicaragua
2004 Agosto Nicaragua
A Canadian sociologist has said that when he’s faced with a question that’s weighing him down and for which he can find no satisfactory answers, he...
From Conqueror State to Nation State Is from Resignation to Citizenship
2004 Mayo América Latina
In Nicaragua, our historic present could be characterized as a long, almost retarded present relative to our era’srhythm, since it covers at least...