NICARAGUA, A REVOLUTIONARY CRISIS

Resumen

Since April 2018, Nicaragua has experienced a crisis reminiscent of the
one that marked the end of the Somoza regime forty years ago. Provoked
by the refusal of a social security reform project, a protest movement
quickly spread. Within days, this movement of young people began also to
attract employers, churches and women’s movements who called – during
increasing demonstrations from April to July of 2018 – for a resignation
of the government and for the organization of general elections. How best
to understand this protest movement, a testimony to the collapse of the
legitimacy of the Ortega and Murillo regime? What kind of dictatorship are
the Sandinista leaders trying to establish in Nicaragua? What is the nature
of this crisis that has been affecting Nicaragua since April 2018?