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Number 449 | Diciembre 2018 |
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Nicaragua
Prologue
April 2018 will be engraved forever on the national consciousness.
The regime’s disproportionately repressive response to the first civic protests made the volcano erupt.
No one saw it coming,... continuar...
Nicaragua
In the lead-up to the insurrection the country was in a “betting mode”
Tension was already in the air for the Ortega–Murillo government as we entered 2018. All through 2017 the economy had begun to chafe with the drop in Venezuelan aid, then in November came the municipal... continuar...
Nicaragua
April 2018: An insurrection of the nation’s consciousness
Nicaragua hadn’t been front-page news in the international media for almost three decades. In April when the bloodshed began in Managua and later in the rest of the country, we returned to the headlines... continuar...
Nicaragua
A regime shooting at a civic revolution
The insurrection of civic consciousness that exploded in April was still very much alive in May.
Many people in many municipalities continued protesting in the streets with their blue and white... continuar...
Nicaragua
Resisting the strategy of terror
By the May 30 attack on the Mothers’ Day march, the government’s strategy for dealing with the grassroots rebellion had become clear: repress (dismantle the road blockades, shooting to kill) and terrorize... continuar...
Nicaragua
After 100 days of insurrection, the world now knows what’s happening
The massive and unjustifiable emotional stress on Nicaraguans imposed by the government’s policy of terror had become palpable by July. Everyone had suffered: some had lost a family member or were at... continuar...
Nicaragua
Between uncertainty about the end and hope that “we’re winning”
In April and even into May, a solution had seemed just around the corner. But the regime’s disproportionate and criminal use of force against the protests hadn’t let up a single day since then. The... continuar...
Nicaragua
Blue and white resistance v. the state of exception
Six months into the April insurrection, Nicaragua entered an undeclared state of exception, the economy was poised for a nosedive and Washington’s sanctions were ready for approval. Uncertainty was... continuar...
Nicaragua
Pressing questions at the end of this year of rebellion
This was a year of economic belt-tightening. If the political, social, economic and definitely humanitarian crisis doesn’t move toward resolution soon, the coming year will be nothing short of desperate... continuar...
Nicaragua
Year-end postscript
As we close this special edition in English three weeks after the Spanish one, a series of particularly important events, some expected and some not, some from the regime’s side and some not, have occurred... continuar...
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a monthly magazine of analysis on Central America