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April is National Poetry Month : Ruben Dario

8:00 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Nicaragua| literature · Comments Off

27 Apr 2009

150px-ruben_darioToday’s poet is Nicaraguan born Ruben Dario who was no fan of Teddy Roosevelt or imperial politics.

A ROOSEVELT

Es con voz de la Biblia, o verso de Walt Whitman,
que habría que llegar hasta ti, Cazador!
Primitivo y moderno, sencillo y complicado,
con un algo de Washington y cuatro de Nemrod.
Eres los Estados Unidos,
eres el futuro invasor
de la América ingenua que tiene sangre indígena,
que aún reza a Jesucristo y aún habla en español.

Eres soberbio y fuerte ejemplar de tu raza;
eres culto, eres hábil; te opones a Tolstoy.
Y domando caballos, o asesinando tigres,
eres un Alejandro-Nabucodonosor.
(Eres un profesor de energía,
como dicen los locos de hoy.)
Crees que la vida es incendio,
que el progreso es erupción;
en donde pones la bala
el porvenir pones.
No.

Los Estados Unidos son potentes y grandes.
Cuando ellos se estremecen hay un hondo temblor
que pasa por las vértebras enormes de los Andes.
Si clamáis, se oye como el rugir del león.
Ya Hugo a Grant le dijo: «Las estrellas son vuestras».
(Apenas brilla, alzándose, el argentino sol
y la estrella chilena se levanta…) Sois ricos.
Juntáis al culto de Hércules el culto de Mammón;
y alumbrando el camino de la fácil conquista,
la Libertad levanta su antorcha en Nueva York.

Mas la América nuestra, que tenía poetas
desde los viejos tiempos de Netzahualcoyotl,
que ha guardado las huellas de los pies del gran Baco,
que el alfabeto pánico en un tiempo aprendió;
que consultó los astros, que conoció la Atlántida,
cuyo nombre nos llega resonando en Platón,
que desde los remotos momentos de su vida
vive de luz, de fuego, de perfume, de amor,
la América del gran Moctezuma, del Inca,
la América fragante de Cristóbal Colón,
la América católica, la América española,
la América en que dijo el noble Guatemoc:
«Yo no estoy en un lecho de rosas»; esa América
que tiembla de huracanes y que vive de Amor,
hombres de ojos sajones y alma bárbara, vive.
Y sueña. Y ama, y vibra; y es la hija del Sol.
Tened cuidado. ¡Vive la América española!
Hay mil cachorros sueltos del León Español.
Se necesitaría, Roosevelt, ser Dios mismo,
el Riflero terrible y el fuerte Cazador,
para poder tenernos en vuestras férreas garras.

Y, pues contáis con todo, falta una cosa: ¡Dios!

English after the jump

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s-CIGARS-large.jpgLatin America is getting into the Obama marketing business. Just look at the Obama cigar coming out of Nicaragua.

Granada Cigars, a small outfit based in Nicaragua’s tobacco-growing north, is using local and Cuban leaves to hand-roll cigars wrapped with a gold band that says “Obama 44,” to commemorate the 44th U.S. president.

I don’t know anything about cigars pero I think these would make great gifts for your favorite cigar smoking Republican.

Via / The Huffington Post

Grab your cafe and sit down for a moment with me before we start our errands and enjoy the first weekend of 2009.

What challenges does the incoming Obama administration face specific to brown and black communities?

Forget Mother Goose. How about some Mamá Goose?

Nicaragua harnesses el viento.

Stripping for deportation.

And last pero certainly not least, have coffee with our amigo Nezua moves into a nuevo blog groove.

Felix Killed At Least 40

11:56 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Nicaragua| honduras · Comments Off

6 Sep 2007

felix.jpgHurricane Felix has taken as least 40 lives in Central America and many more people are still unaccounted for. Especially hard hit is the Nicaraguan indigenous community, the Miskitos, many who had to be rescued.

Story and Image Via / Yahoo! News

Nicaragua : Remembering a Revolution

10:20 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Nicaragua| Politics| history · Comments Off

20 Jul 2007

nicaragua.jpgIt was a Latino lefty party yesterday in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua as the Central American nation celebrated the 28th anniversary of the 1979 Sandinista revolution. President Daniel Ortega, presided over the celebrations along with the presidents of Panama, Honduras, and what leftist Latino celebration would be complete without Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez?

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363501.jpgA follow-up to Mala’s post from a couple of weeks ago.

In a giant leap backwards, the Nicaraguan parliament has yielded to the pressures of religious groups and the Nicaraguan president himself and moved to make therapeutic abortion (abortion to save a mother’s life) illegal and punishable by law in the coutry.

The parliament has left the current sentence for those who practice the abortions in place — six years in prison — in spite of the fact that President Enrique Bolaños was pushing for a much harsher sentence of 20 to 30 years.

Meanwhile, according to Spain’s 20 Minutos, the United Nations and the European Union are “worried”. You see, it’s no coincidence that this is being debated now…election day is just over a week away.

The measure was approved with the help from the left in an attempt to bolster favor for their candidate Daniel Ortega.

According to 20 Minutos, in a joint statement the United Nations and the European Union said:

“given that this is a highly sensitive issue that affects the life, health, and judicial safety of Nicaraguan women,” this issue should not be discussed so close to the November 5th elections.

Reuters reports that hundreds of women protested the passing of the measure outside of the National Assembly Wednesday night, many calling the decision a “death sentence” for pregnant women and a “violation of human rights”.

Via / 20 Minutos and Reuters

Nicaragua Looking to Ban Abortion

11:13 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Nicaragua| Women · Comments Off

14 Oct 2006

nicaragua_flag.jpgAccording to the Feminist Daily Newswire there is currently legislation under consideration in Nicaragua to ban all abortions, even to save the life of the woman/girl.

Current law permits “therapeutic abortions” for situations in which a woman or girl’s life is endangered by a pregnancy, but remains vague, Spero News reports. Despite the restrictive law, a 1996 study found that about 36,000 abortions are performed every year, and that unsafe, illegal abortions were a leading cause of death for women in the 1980s, according to CBS.

The predominately conservative country engaged in an explosive debate about abortion rights in March 2003 when a 9-year-old rape victim became pregnant and underwent an abortion. Despite medical opinions that the pregnancy was a risk to her health, government officials, Catholic church representatives, and anti-abortion activists opposed the abortion.

Via / Feminist Daily News
Image Via / Fecca


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