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.
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.