Daniel Ortega vs. Daniel Ortega
At the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad in 2009, much of the talk was of what the various heads of state would make of the new kid on the […]
Category Archives: Nicaragua
¡Nicaragua Guácala!
Nicaragua is about as guácala as it gets. The Sandinista revolution of the 70s, the Contra revolution of the 80s, the Managua earthquake in the 70s, Hurricane Mitch in the […]
What is Rubén Darío doing in León cathedral?
One of the first things I learned about León was that Rubén Darío, Nicaragua’s most famous poet, was buried there, in the cathedral. That was years before I visited Nicaragua. […]
Nicaragua Journal #6 (San Juan del Sur, peace and forgetting)
The missionaries were a conspicuous presence in Nicaragua. There were two different groups, each with their own unifying t-shirt proclaiming their mission, in the immigration lines when I arrived at […]
Nicaragua Journal #5 (Ometepe, mythology and marketing)
Nicaragua monikers itself as the land of lakes and volcanoes, and while it has plenty of both, it is the lakes-and-volcanoes combo of Isla Ometepe which is at the heart […]
