http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy_power/politics_protest/nicaragua_ortega Comments for "Nicaragua: through the abyss , Sergio Ramírez " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy_power/politics_protest/nicaragua_ortega <p>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, those too young to live through the revolution - and that means the majority of the <a href="http://www.alertnet.org/db/cp/nicaragua.htm">Nicaraguan people</a> today - view what has come down to them from history as a cacophony so confused as to induce only oblivion. Second, those who did experience it directly now recall it with feelings of pained nostalgia, frustration and disenchantment because of what happened afterwards. Third, those of any generation who choose to do so see in the government of <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/18/interviews/ortega/">Daniel Ortega</a> - who was elected president in November 2006 after a sixteen-year gap - the continuation of a project interrupted in 1990 when the <em>Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional </em><em>(</em>FSLN) lost the national elections. </p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy_power/politics_protest/nicaragua_ortega" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy_power/politics_protest/nicaragua_ortega">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy_power/politics_protest/nicaragua_ortega#comment democracy &amp; power Original Copyright politics of protest Sergio Ramírez Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:20:58 +0100 Grace Davies 34492 at http://www.opendemocracy.net