"Do you ever think about things that you do think about?" (Inherit the Wind)
In the 1980s, the Sandinista government adopted the very revolutionary fad of bestowing a name to every year. For example, there was the Year of Unity Against Agresion (Año de la Unidad en Contra de la Agresion) and the Year…
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On December 21, after being expelled from Nicaragua, the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI, by its Spanish acronym) presented its long-awaited report on the Nicaraguan crisis. GIEI concluded that the “The Government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo committed…
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Yesterday, at around 3 pm Managua time, a woman walked into the Cathedral of Managua. She headed to the confessional where she found Fr. Mario Guevara, the Cathedral’s vicar. The woman confessed and was absolved. This would have been an…
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When Daniel Ortega became president in 2007, the relationship between the Nicaraguan government and the independent press changed dramatically. It’s not that the independent press had enjoyed a particularly easy relationship with the previous administrations. However, the governments of Chamorro,…
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Hear my words, oh Lord Hear my cries Hear my protest Because you are not a God who is a friend to dictators nor are you a partisan of their politics nor are you influenced by propaganda nor are you…
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