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Number 447 | Octubre 2018 |
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Nicaragua
Blue and white resistance v. the state of exception
The Ortega-Murillo dictatorship
seems to have neither limits nor scruples
in its relentless determination to stay in power
and impose its “normality” via irrational repression.
Is there still any possibility of a national dialogue
to negotiate early elections and a civic way out of this crisis?
Six months into the April insurrection and counting,
we’ve entered an undeclared state of exception,
the economy is poised for a nosedive and
Washington’s sanctions are now ready.... continuar...
Nicaragua
Nicaragua briefs
CENTRAL BANK FIGURES
NO LONGER PUBLISHED
On September 6 the Central Bank of Nicaragua (BCN) stopped publishing daily reports about the status of public and private finances (international... continuar...
Nicaragua
“The regime is using the judicial system as a repressive political weapon”
Reflections by a former attorney general
on the crisis the government triggered in April,
with special emphasis on the illegal treatment of
hundreds of political prisoners the regime has jailed
under new laws in the third stage of its repression.... continuar...
Nicaragua
“Together we’re a volcano... but we had forgotten it”
The author of this piece is using a pseudonym.
She wrote it at the three-month mark of April’s rebellion.
In her words, her reflections, we recognize the thoughts and feelings
of the hundreds and thousands of young women and men
who began this unstoppable citizens’ insurrection.
... continuar...
Nicaragua
University struggles in Nicaragua (part 2) The April students: More challenges and new possibilities
April’s university students face
greater demands than those of the past.
They carry four hundred dead on their back
and are up against a dictatorship now proven
to be bloodier than that of the Somozas.
But they’ve proven they have courage.
Their instrument is the social networks,
which their predecessors didn’t have.
These networks expand and magnify
events and the horizon of possibilities.
Could they also accelerate the processes?
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América Latina
The Left has no critique of the crisis in Venezuela
Nicaragua and Venezuela are increasingly
being linked in analyses and declarations.
The acute humanitarian crisis of the Bolivarian process
and the repressive trend of the Ortega-Murillo process
both pose serious questions for the international Left
that can’t be resolved by unconditional, uncritical solidarity.
... continuar...
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a monthly magazine of analysis on Central America