Tag: Anastasio Somoza Debayle

  • “90% of Nicaraguans Feel Spied Upon” – True, or Fake News?

    The “spied upon” headline from El Pais is unequivocal. The story, in the newspaper’s English-language edition, says that Nicaraguans live in “a climate of permanent surveillance” in which they distrust even their neighbors. Further, apparently harmless community meetings are really “a mechanism of social control” where they “feel watched.” El Pais sources a survey carried […]

  • Celebrating Nicaragua’s Gains and Feeling Anguish for Gaza

    Celebrating Nicaragua’s Gains and Feeling Anguish for Gaza

    1999: Hurricane Mitch Aftermath The image is forever seared in my mind: Francisco was two years old, his thin legs and swollen feet were covered in sores. Straw blond hair stuck to his head as he listlessly nursed from his teenage mother’s breast. He weighed 13 ½ pounds. It was the summer of 1999, and […]

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