Faguas is the country of Nicaraguan writer and poet Gioconda Belli. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega confirmed Monday that he will “firmly defend the application of justice” to opponents detained for allegedly trying to destabilize the country, whose release is demanded by governments and international organizations. according to Ticotimes News yesterday.
Mercado Roberto Huembes, Managua. 2023.
"Fear reigns in Nicaragua. The rulers are terrified at the thought of losing power. Their freedom depends on no one but them being free. That course is an abyss that only leads to the collapse of all sense of citizen independence, the corruption of the State and its personnel at all levels, impoverishment, and even the possibility of the future disappearing. Ortega and Murillo are sick with fear. They can no longer govern. That will make them throw themselves into the arms of whoever protects their impunity and that will make the country be exploited by the highest bidder. Nicaragua will continue to exist, but this dictatorship is killing the idiosyncrasies of that people: their courage, their joy, and their energy. It will be a castrated country. We are experiencing something similar to the Terror after the French Revolution combined with a restoration of the monarchy because the couple and their family behave like a medieval royal family. But these situations breed their own destruction. History teaches it. They will pass. Healing and rebuilding will take time", Gioconda Belli. https://nuso.org/articulo/302-lejos-de-una-nicaragua-irreal/.
Carmen Posadas interviews Gioconda Belli, https://youtu.be/Cz7WbBFyYMI. Belli was born December 9, 1948, in Managua, Nicaragua is a Nicaraguan author, novelist, and poet. Gioconda grew up in a wealthy family in Managua. Her father is Humberto Belli Zapata (November 08, 1914. Death: July 2007 aged 92 Managua, Nicaragua) and her brother is Humberto Belli-Pereira, (born September 7, 1945).
She attended boarding school in Spain, graduated from the Royal School of Santa Isabel in Madrid, and studied advertising and journalism at the Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and Journalism in Philadelphia. She married and had her first daughter at 19 when she returned to Nicaragua.
She attended boarding school in Spain, graduated from the Royal School of Santa Isabel in Madrid, and studied advertising and journalism at the Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and Journalism in Philadelphia. She married and had her first daughter at 19 when she returned to Nicaragua.
Ever since a very young Gioconda Belli surprised the literary community of her country with the strength and ease of her first poems, she has built a literary work in which nature, sensuality, and rebellion find a common channel, a powerful yet delicate poetic voice, deeply vital, who does not renounce joy and who does not aim to shock but is not willing to remain silent for fear of scandal.
Belli began her career at Pepsi-Cola as a liaison to the company's advertising agency, Publisa, which then hired her as an account executive.
Through one of her colleagues at the advertising agency, Belli met Camilo Ortega, who introduced her to the Sandinistas and asked her to join the group.
In 1970, Belli joined the struggle against the Somoza dictatorship, sworn into the movement by Leana Ortega, Camilo Ortega's wife. Belli's work for the movement led to her being forced into exile in Mexico in 1975. Returning in 1979 just before the Sandinista victory, she became FSLN's international press liaison in 1982 and the director of State Communications in 1984. During that time she met Charles Castaldi, an American NPR journalist, whom she married in 1987. She has been living in both Managua and Los Angeles since 1990. She has since left the FSLN and become a major critic of the Ortega government.
Through one of her colleagues at the advertising agency, Belli met Camilo Ortega, who introduced her to the Sandinistas and asked her to join the group.
In 1970, Belli joined the struggle against the Somoza dictatorship, sworn into the movement by Leana Ortega, Camilo Ortega's wife. Belli's work for the movement led to her being forced into exile in Mexico in 1975. Returning in 1979 just before the Sandinista victory, she became FSLN's international press liaison in 1982 and the director of State Communications in 1984. During that time she met Charles Castaldi, an American NPR journalist, whom she married in 1987. She has been living in both Managua and Los Angeles since 1990. She has since left the FSLN and become a major critic of the Ortega government.
Already a consecrated writer, mother, and grandmother, she continues to be a lucid feminist who believes in the power of being and the female body and in her ability to build a better society, as she imagined in "El país de las mujeres", a novel in which the leaders of the Erotic Left Party cleanses and heals that country of their imagination, Faguas, so similar to Nicaragua.
More than 20 years after the publication of "El país bajo mi piel", the memoir that sealed her critical review of the Sandinista experience, and when the authoritarian drift of the Nicaraguan regime deepens the repression since the citizen protests of 2018, the ex-fellow Sandinista defines Ortega as an unscrupulous dictator and anticipates that she is about to publish a new book, Luciérnagas, in which he gathers articles that give an idea of how and why Sandinism fell.
Gioconda is critical of the governments of Cuba, Venezuela and, of course, Nicaragua, instead she finds in the experience of Gabriel Boric in Chile an indication of hope for a possible democratic left.
"What has happened in Nicaragua since the popular rebellion of 2018 has confronted many of us with a deep sense of unreality. It was already unreal for me to see the symbols of Sandinismo and the revolution used as decorative paraphernalia. Rosario Murillo, wife of Ortega and vice president of Nicaragua resignified from Sandinismo and dressed it in psychedelic colors, and turned it religious and corporate, to resume power in 2007. Daniel Ortega, president of Nicaragua, was a wolf who dressed as sheep. They succeeded in deceiving a part of the people, but in 2018, at the slightest provocation, they reacted with such violence that they themselves generated a movement of rejection that made them reel. To save their power, since then, they have unscrupulously resorted to all possible means of repression, without caring about justice, the country, or international public opinion. For me, this exile is a prolongation of that feeling of unreality, that my country, for whose freedom so many died and many of us gave up our youth, has ended up in the hands of two heartless men. One would like not to believe in what is happening. Exile has that same unreal, strange quality".
La Catedral Metropolitana de Santiago Apóstol de Managua. 2023.
I cannot agree more with Gioconda Belli regarding the geopolitical situation of Nicaragua, after spending a few days in Managua. However, if you enjoy good food, culture, and order, you must travel and spend some days in Nicaragua.
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