Why are we ignoring science?
2018 Abril Nicaragua
Nicaragua is a natural laboratory for evolution, just as the Galapagos Islands were for Charles Darwin more than a century ago, declared Melisa Olave,...

Questions from the rubble
2017 Octubre México
What happened to the Teotihuacán pyramids during the earthquake that shook Mexico to the core on September 19? What happened to the Panteón Civil...

My questions about July 19 on the 35th anniversary of the revolution
2014 Julio Nicaragua
A new July 19 celebration. A few days earlier I sought out some young men and women from the Sandinista Youth organization, many of whom are my age...

Memories of a committed generation
2013 Junio Nicaragua
In early May, 800 nuns, mother superiors of their orders, met in Rome for the general assembly of the International Union of Mother Superiors. Pope...

Memories of a generation of internationalists
2012 Septiembre Nicaragua
After Salvador Allende’s socialist government won in Chile in 1970, then was overthrown by Augusto Pinochet on September 11, 1973, the Sandinista Popular...

Memories of a scholarship generation
2012 Junio Nicaragua
Many young people left Nicaragua in the eighties with grants to study in countries that were part of the Socialist Bloc. The majority of them went to...

Memories of a feminist generation
2012 Marzo Nicaragua
My mother is a lawyer who’s over 50 years old. The years have marked her, but she still faces life with a firm attitude and retains her unalterably...

Memories of the betrayed generation
2011 Septiembre Nicaragua
An extensive group of Nicaraguan adults survived the ten-year civil war that pitted members of the Sandinista Popular Army (EPS), including guys just...

Memories of a lost generation
2011 Julio Nicaragua
July marks the 32nd anniversary of the initiation of the Popular Sandinista Revolution, which inspired so many of our parents, committing them to a common...

The Adventure of Producing Blue Energy in the Caribbean Region
2010 Diciembre Nicaragua
In 2006, energy cuts in most of Nicaragua frequently lasted up to eight hours a day, affecting production and commerce and the collective and personal...

Cargill: In the Belly of the Beast
2010 Mayo Nicaragua
Cargill is a privately held transnational company that has grown out of all measure to become one of the US corporations with the biggest profit volume...

An SOS for Climate Change: What Will We Young People Do?
2009 Noviembre Nicaragua
We are already seeing evidence of the environmental crisis, which has a greater effect on those of us living in the world’s basement, in the least advanced...

Are We Surfing the Internet Or Have We Run Aground?
2009 Junio Nicaragua
According to a World Economic Forum report recently released in Guatemala, Nicaragua came in last in Central America with respect to information and...

To Read or Not to Read: That is the Question
2008 Agosto Nicaragua
According to Moroccan-French writer Daniel Pennac, readers are subject to 10 rights, the first of which is the right not to read. It appears that, consciously...

The “New” Chureca: From Garbage to Human Dignity
2008 Abril Nicaragua
La Chureca has existed since 1973. Over 30 years later, in December 2007, it was named one of the “20 Horrors of the Modern World” in a contest organized...