“THE SANDINISM BELONGS TO THE PAST” INTERVIEW WITH MADELAINE CARACA

Resumen

In this interview with Delphine Lacombe, Madelaine Caracas, co-founder
and spokesperson for the University Coordination for Democracy and
Justice, political opponent of the current Nicaraguan dictatorship, talks
about her participation in the events of April and May 2018 which marked
the contestation of power embodied by the presidency of the couple
Daniel Ortega – Rosario Murillo. It evokes the first demonstrations against
government inaction to extinguish the fire that ravaged the Indio Maiz
forest reserve. She returns to the mobilisations against the reform of the
Social Security Institute, which heavily repressed, have led to the country’s
tipping into crisis. She relates her participation in the “national dialogue”
between civil society and power, organized under the auspices of the
Episcopal Conference. Finally, she returns to what Sandinism is today
and the capacity of “National Blue and White Unity” to embody a political
alternative.