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Understanding the roots of Nicaragua's April 19 movement.

May 26 2018
It's hard to predict where things are going to go, because Nicaragua has proven throughout its history to be deeply unpredictable - but I do think this is the beginning of something must larger. This has unleashed a crisis in legitimacy that I don't think the Ortega administration will ever recover from. I'm curious to see how things unfold, but is a deeper popular uprising possible? I would say absolutely. But that depends on what Rosario and Daniel decide to do.

African American studies scholar Courtney Desiree Morris traces the rise of Nicaragua's 19th of April movement - as an uprising against the country's slow drift towards neoliberal privatization and authoritarian rule under president Daniel Ortega, and a grassroots mobilization of popular political will.

Courtney wrote the article Unexpected Uprising: The Crisis of Democracy in Nicaragua for NACLA.

 

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Courtney Desiree Morris

Courtney Desiree Morris is an artist and an assistant professor of African American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University.

courtneydesireemorris.com

 

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