Gioconda Belli broke her Nicaraguan passport on TV

Nicaraguan writer Mona Lisa Belli tore up his passport on television to show his rejection of the dictatorial government of Daniel Ortega there Rosario Murilloafter the authorities of the Central American country decided to withdraw his nationality “for treason” and confiscated his property, as they did with 93 other people, including opponents and critics.

“When history forgets these tyrants, I will continue to exist in my books as a Nicaraguan poet,” he said in a television interview. Spanish television.

Last Wednesday, 94 people were found guilty of “treason against the fatherland”, and all their property was seized. In the case of the poetess, the money she had in her bank accounts and everything in her house in Managua. The writer Sergio RamirezCervantes Prize for Literature in 2017, also received the same sanction for his opinions critical of the current government.

At one point in the televised dialogue, Belli took the scissors and explained, “Really, this piece of paper, which is the Nicaraguan passport, does not make me Nicaraguan or give me nationality. I am going to tear this document here, live, because I want to make it clear that I am not this document. I am Gioconda Belli, I am a Nicaraguan poet, and when history has forgotten these tyrants, I will continue to exist in my books as a Nicaraguan poet.”

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And he added: “Let it be clear that they are not going to intimidate me, I am not going to stop being who I am because I do not have this document. This document, moreover, is issued by a government that I do not know, because it is a government that murdered, that took away our nationality and called us traitors to the fatherland without reason.

Elsewhere in the interview, Belli argued that the ideals of the Sandinista movement had disappeared due to Ortega’s desire for power. “It was 30 years ago, in 1979, when I fought against a tyrant, so I have no problem or regret about my participation in the revolution. 30 years have passed since the Sandinista revolution, which was beautiful and important, but which was frustrated because in 1990 Daniel Ortega took over the party and turned it into a monstrosity to satisfy his desire for power. And what about the Sandinista old guard? We all left because we didn’t want to continue being complicit in what he was doing. It makes me very sad to see that in the name of this organization, for which so many died, all this is done.

Regarding the position of Latin American countries regarding the violation of human rights in Nicaragua, he highlighted the work of Chile, Colombia and Uruguay.

“The three Latin American countries that have come out against are Boric, in Chile, which for me represents hope; Petro, in Colombia, who made a statement; and Uruguay. In Latin America, we are not going to save everyone by ourselves, but all together; So to accept these human rights violations is to accept that we are banana countries, that we are not serious…”

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