Stolen at Gunpoint
I’m grateful to have come across Kari’s kind correspondence in a file this evening. Dear Mark, I just wanted to drop you a note to thank you for taking the time to write The Book…
Tag: Nicaragua
Dear Daisy Zamora
(After Reading Riverbed of Memory) I admit itI am filled with guiltWe didn’t do enough back in the 80sWhen the Reaganites were determinedTo crush the RevolutionTrue, you might say, the Sandinistas were far from perfectBut…
US Subversion of Free Elections
In early November 1989, the Bush Administration brought the US candidate Violeta Chamorro to Washington for some publicity. President Bush promised “to lift the trade embargo and assist in Nicaragua’s reconstruction” if Chamorro won the…
Josie Knesel: A Woman for and with Others
Janet Oberle of the SLU Athletic Department shared the following nomination for the Mev Puleo Social Justice Award. I am happy to know that Josie Knesel is doing good work in Saint Louis and in Nicaragua!…
Adelante
We’ve had our chat. Now It’s time to live like saints. Leonel Rugama, Nicaragua revolutionary
Books Can Be Subversive
Somoza’s guards burned the 10,000 volumes of the Solentiname library –from Prophets in Combat: The Nicaraguan Journal of Bishop Pedro Casaldáliga [1986]
Manifesto
Exteriorismo is a poetry created with images of the exterior world, the world we see and sense, and that is, in general, the specific world of poetry. Exteriorismo is objective poetry: narrative and anecdote, made…
Share the Wealth: A Summer in Nicaragua, with Annelise Feder and Erin Twiehaus
Our next Share the Wealth will be this Saturday evening. Join us as we hear stories of accompaniment in Nicaragua from SLU undergrads Annelise Feder and Erin Twiehaus. They will share their experiences this past…
A Doctor and a Child: Christmas Eve in Managua
Fernando Silva ran the children’s hospital in Managua. On Christmas Eve, he worked late into the night. Firecrackers were exploding and fireworks lit up the sky when Fernando decided it was time to leave. They…
July 19
“By Final Judgment of the world you should understand The destruction of injustice on earth And the reign of the Spirit of Light and Truth, that’s to say Love.” – Augusto Cesar Sandino (via Ernesto…