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Number 452 | Marzo 2019 |
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Nicaragua
Negotiation time again: For real or another stall?
After 10 months of massive protests then resistance,
met with killings, disappearances, jailings and torture—
10 long months of mind-boggling government repression
accompanied by the regime’s steadfast denial of that reality—
Daniel Ortega finally agreed to sit down at the negotiating table
with representatives of the blue and white opposition on February 27.
He didn’t have many other choices left, given a crippled economy
and threats of new sanctions from various international quarters.
But that doesn’t mean he did it in good faith.
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua briefs
SENTENCES AGAINST PEASANT LEADERS
the rural farmers Medardo Mairena, Tedro Mena and Luis Orlando Icabalceta, leaders of the anti-canal peasant movement, received extraordinary sentences from... continuar...
Nicaragua
The Ortega regime in the global and regional context
Nicaragua’s deputy foreign minister during the revolutionary years
offers elements of the international and regional context
that help us better understand the dynamics surrounding
the Nicaraguan people’s current struggle against
the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship.... continuar...
Nicaragua
“I want this nightmare to be over”
We offer our readers the first part of Chapter 11 of the report
by the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI),
a moving chapter titled, “I want this nightmare to be over,”
written after devoting time to listening to the many victims
and their family members to learn their “nightmares.”
Many pages of this voluminous report tell of great pain,
while others recall memories of the Somoza dictatorship,
and still others offer views of what caused the rebellion.
All of them tell of fear and terror, mistrust and threats,
of divisions in families, communities and society as a whole.
They reflect griefs and traumas that are like open wounds
that will need lifelong tending and may never fully heal.
The also tell of so many and young people’s futures
cut short by death or put on hold by jail or exile.... continuar...
Nicaragua
How did adults view April’s rebellious youth?
In 2016, many adults said, or at least thought,
that the millennial youth were politically apathetic,
individualistic and uninterested in Nicaragua’s problems.
Only two years later, in last’s year’s sudden April uprising,
they saw those same youths go out into the streets unarmed
to change the country, risking prison or even their own lives.
They were in the front lines of a self-convoked social movement
that is still resisting despite the continuing brutal repression.
How do adult analysts assess that turn-around?... continuar...
El Salvador
The end of two-party dominance... and the beginning of a seismic shock?
Nayib Bukele winning the presidential elections was a shock
because even though it was predicted by opinion polls,
nobody in ARENA or the FMLN had wanted to believe them.
The FMLN, which had expelled Bukele from its own ranks,
was the biggest loser, left in third place
with 70% fewer votes than in 2014.
The main winner: a people with new hopes... continuar...
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a monthly magazine of analysis on Central America