The recent wave of arrests in Nicaragua, targeting five opposition presidential 
contenders, several former high-level Sandinista leaders, feminists, 
journalists and others, betrays every dream that we who lived and worked in 
Sandinista Nicaragua had in the 1980s.

I never imagined then that I would sign an open letter condemning the 
authoritarian turn taken by the government of President Daniel Ortega, and his 
wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo. But the increasing repression has 
prompted me to join over 500 U.S.-based activists who traveled to, worked and 
lived in Nicaragua, including a handful of luminaries like novelist Alice 
Walker, whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and professor Noam Chomsky, in speaking 
out. What we all have in common is that we went to Nicaragua as health workers, 
teachers, artists and volunteers to quietly participate in what felt like a 
unique moment in history, while at the same time protesting loudly against the 
U.S.-directed war in the ’80s.

I went to Nicaragua in 1979, after eight years in Mexico and 11 in Cuba, as 
someone committed to justice and democracy and opposed to my own government’s 
efforts to overthrow a popular revolution. I, and so many others from all over 
the world, contributed what we could to the dream for which so many Nicaraguans 
died. For four years I documented in several books the creativity, chaos and 
wild hopes raised by the newly won revolution.

full at 
https://www.confidencial.com.ni/english/nicaragua-past-dreams-todays-nightmare/


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