The interoceanic canal: An ever-present but never realized dream
2014 Julio Nicaragua
In May 2012 President Daniel Ortega announced the intention to construct an interoceanic canal through Nicaragua. He first mentioned it at the Central...
An expert speaks on political ethics
2014 Julio Nicaragua
Jorge Luis Borges used to say: “I think that in time we will deserve not to have governments.” This phrase
engraved itself on my memory the first...
My questions about July 19 on the 35th anniversary of the revolution
2014 Julio Nicaragua
A new July 19 celebration. A few days earlier I sought out some young men and women from the Sandinista Youth organization, many of whom are my age...
Deceit, disappointment and anger are again accumulating in rural Nicaragua
2014 Mayo Nicaragua
The history of the Nicaraguan peasantry is one of continuous processes of expropriation and usurpation of its resources. In recent history, the multiethnic...
“A mere delegate of the people, I do not recognize party colors”
2014 Marzo Nicaragua
Nicaraguans: Raised by your votes to the Presidency of the Republic and extremely grateful for the distinguished honor you have done me by putting the...
Rearming in the north and reforming the Constitution
2013 Noviembre Nicaragua
Right before the Day of the Dead, we learned that the FSLN National Assembly bench had been given a sneak preview of a bill reforming 39 articles of...
34 years of blameful forgetfulness, 23 of interested memory (part 2)
2013 Agosto Nicaragua
In an insightful paper delivered to circumspect lawyers, German historian Reinhart Koselleck took a look at various historiographical tendencies, distinguishing...
Silver bullets 25 years after Esquipulas
2012 Septiembre Nicaragua
The silver bullet is laden with symbolism due to the extraordinarily destructive power attributed to it over history. Balas de plata [Silver...
Memories of a generation of internationalists
2012 Septiembre Nicaragua
After Salvador Allende’s socialist government won in Chile in 1970, then was overthrown by Augusto Pinochet on September 11, 1973, the Sandinista Popular...