Nicaragua: the pending task of reassessing the recent past violence

Abstract

In this work, the author seeks to explain the relationship between memory and political violence of the Nicaraguan  “recent past” that began in 1979 on the occasion of the  Sandinista revolution. The author considers that the  memory regarding that recent past is notoriously  “institutional”, i.e., shaped both by the State and the  interests of the elites that have been the protagonists of  the recurrent political violence without which content and  meaning could be given to the history of the country. The  “resizing” of violence is proposed as a primary and urgent task in order to “unframe” and democratize Nicaraguan  memory, institutionalized, a reflection of the projects of the  elites, especially in the context of the repressive spiral  perpetrated against the population by Daniel Ortega’s  government since 2018.

Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 162, 2023: 16-35.