Democratic institutions in Latin America were capable of resurrecting from the ashes of military dictatorships only where these institutions had flourished before. But where they had been historically weak, or had hardly existed, they were hard to reinvent. Español.
The official results in Nicaragua's election on 6 November 2011 found that Daniel Ortega was re-elected president by a clear margin. But the procedures surrounding the vote leave Sergio Ramírez in no doubt that a great fraud - and a great farce - was perpetrated.
Nicaragua's struggle against dictatorship three decades ago inspired the world. The small central American country once more needs wider attention, says its former vice-president Sergio Ramírez.
One morning in April 2004, Manuel Salvador Monge López, El Chirizo, was killed by a bayonet thrust in a cantina brawl in the district of Monimbó in Masaya. The victim
A heroine of the popular struggles that led to the overthrow of the Somoza family dictatorship in Nicaragua ended a twelve-day hunger-strike in Managua on 16 June 2008. The conditions
The Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua of 1979 is approaching its thirtieth anniversary. There is no longer a single collective memory of the event. Rather, three perspectives can be found. First,
Daniel Ortega's victory in the presidential election in Nicaragua on 5 November 2006 seems irreversible, just as it seems irreversible that his power-sharing pact with the convicted former
The Nicaraguan presidential and legislative elections on 5 November 2006 are fast approaching. The questions put to me here in Berlin, as before in Seville, quite rightly centre on the
The unexpected death by heart-attack of presidential candidate Herty Lewites on 2 July 2006 has irrupted into Nicaragua's electoral panorama just four months before the elections of 5
Nicaragua is once again trapped in the bonds of caudillismo, an evil that has afflicted us through most of our post-independence history. Today, two caudillos are sharing power through a
