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[sayruq]

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gagged :o

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[folkfashion]

Nicaraguan dancer, Nicaragua, by Víctor Cajina

[astroskeptic]

Nicaragua:

BREAKING: Nicaragua is taking Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Canada to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for their complicity in the genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.

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Estoy obsesionada con esto de las Mikus internacionales 💙 Nicaraguan Miku

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Nicaragua 🇳🇮

[northameicanblog]

Granada Cathedral, Granada, Nicaragua: The Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral also called Granada Cathedral is a neoclassical Catholic cathedral located in Granada, Nicaragua, 40 kilometres southeast of Managua. The church is the main temple of the Diocese of Granada, and its bishop is Jorge Solórzano Pérez. Wikipedia

[leftistfeminista]

30% of guerrilla combatants were women. In Nicaragua’s first democratic elections in 1984, 67% of the women who voted in that election voted for the FSLN.

The women in Nicaragua during the Sandinista Revolution saw their way of life drastically change, emerging as active participants and leaders. Empowered by the movement, they boldly challenged any attempts to confine them to traditional domestic roles.

[lizardsaredinosaurs]

And you thought dinosaurs were extinct. *cackles and fluffs feathers*

Great Curassow (Crax rubra)

Central America and northern South America

Status: Vulnerable

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I love that the female is more showy - so rare for birds.

[sayruq]

Nicaragua's case against Germany in the International Court of Justice

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The second image is of a different species, the largescale four-eyes (Anableps anableps). I included it due to how well it shows the eye, and as a result of far fewer photos available of Anableps dowei. This animal was requested!

[rogueddie]

The top posts about Nicaragua on here are all in relation to Palestine and, whilst it is vital to keep talking about Palestine, I can't help but feel disheartened.

The situation in Nicaragua is horrifying and I'm stunned that more people aren't speaking about it. The amount of mass atrocities is gut wrenching.

The current president, Daniel Ortega, has had protesters of his burgeoning dicatorship tortured or killed. He's had hundreds deported and stripped of their nationality. There is a dangerous crackdown on peoples freedoms. Live ammunition is used on protestors.

And that's just politically. The country is in crisis economically. Outside of Haiti, Nicaragua is the poorest country in the western hemisphere.

I understand that we can't talk about every political problem occuring in the world, especially with how much horror and violations there are. With multiple genocides and our own political problems at home, it can be a lot.

But Nicaragua is in dire need of support. The top posts about the country shouldn't only be about their charge against Germany. There are more important things to talk about when it comes to Nicaragua.

I’m trying to find the best places to help the people in Nicaragua, these are the best I’ve found so far but if you know any better please add;

Save the Children Doctors Without Borders Global Giving

And, some more information;

Inside the Nicaraguan Town Resisting President Daniel Ortega | The Dispatch

Nicaragua, Events of 2019 (Human Rights Watch)

Nicaragua protests: Ortega opponents fear for their lives | Al Jazeera

Populations At Risk

Imprisoned and exiled, a Nicaraguan activist rebuilds her life in the US

2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Nicaragua

'We are not afraid' Why are Nicaraguans protesting?

UK Parliament releases findings on scale of oppression by Ortega regime

Nicaragua orders closure of Red Cross in continuing crackdown

A cry for justice: Five years of oppression and resistance

Nicaragua: Continued and widespread deterioration of human rights

[ignisgalaxia]

With the release of Prodigy season 2, the Trek fandom finally has an answer to what Chakotay's native ancestry is. He's Nicarao, a tribe from the western region of Nicaragua who actually share a common ancestry with the Nahua Aztecs of Mexico. The show even mentions the island of Ometepe specifically, which is the largest island in Lake Nicaragua made up of two volcanoes.

The reason this is so important to me is because my dad and his family are from Nicaragua. I’ve been getting more in touch with those roots over the last year or so, and I’ve found it very frustrating how there seems to be no Nica representation in media, at least not in the mainstream. But when I found out that Chakotay was a fellow Nica, I was literally bouncing off the walls. To think, one of my favorite characters has the same ancestry as me (well, almost, but I’ll get to that later)! When I told my dad, he laughed so hard because he never would’ve imagined.

But I haven’t seen a lot of people talking about this aspect. I get it, it’s a minuscule part of the wild ride that was season 2. But I’d really like us as a fandom to discuss this more. I mean, we literally don’t have to guess what tribe he’s from anymore!

So since nobody else has come forward, I am going to claim myself as the only member of the Voyager-Prodigy fandom with actual Nicaraguan ancestry, and am making this post to give firsthand information about the Nicarao and the nation as a whole.

Firstly, some context. My dad was born in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, and lived there with his family until he was 7. Then they fled the country due to the Contra War that was going on. My grandfather was born and raised in Bluefields, a city on the country's Carribean coast, then went to college in Mexico where he met my grandmother. Neither of them are Nicarao, and are in fact very European (the DNA tests proved it). However, when they were all living in Managua, my grandparents had a handful of maids that worked for them (they had six kids they needed some help), and a couple of them were Nicarao. Specifically, they were natives from a village in the nearby mountains. So while I don't have info on natives from Ometepe, I do have some on the people in general.

The maids lived with my dad's family during the week and would go home to their village on the weekends. They primarily spoke Spanish, but he would occasionally catch them speaking in their native tongue which I assume is Nahua.

My dad recounted a time when the maids invited the family to their village for a day trip. He said they were living in Adobe houses and had lots of livestock (cattle, chickens, goats, etc) as well as horses, which he apparently rode for the first time there. He also said most of the natives had two primary weapons: a machete to cut crops and other vegetation, and a 22 single shot rifle. They used the rifles to shoot iguanas off trees. Iguanas and iguana eggs are a delicacy in Nicaragua that the natives are experts at making.

This is a direct quote from my grandmother when I asked her about what she remembered of them:

The people I knew, they were good and hard working people. Smart, happy, funny… they really are sociable, like to talk and say jokes invented with their mind and history. The women were skillful, knew how to survive. They cooked, cleaned, planted crops and vegetables. Good merchants, they really knew how to sell and buy.

I wish I had more info to share, but unfortunately season 2 could not have been released at a worse time because my grandfather has recently begun developing Alzheimer's or some other form of dementia and has been losing his memory over the last few months. Even when my dad and I were with him in May and I asked him to recount his earlier life, he repeated himself a few times since he evidently had forgotten he'd already told us those parts. If I had known how fast he’d be deteriorating, I would’ve started my work sooner.

If I do end up learning anything more from my relatives, I’ll update the post. For now, I hope this is of some use to people. And if anyone has questions about Nicaraguan culture in general, I’ll be happy to pass them along to my dad.

[stillnaomi]

The government of Nicaragua has announced that it will break diplomatic relations with Israel, adding to the country’s growing isolation on the global stage amid its war in Gaza.

Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo announced the move to state media on Friday after the country’s Congress passed a resolution calling for action after the one-year anniversary of the Gaza war on October 7.

Murillo, who is President Daniel Ortega’s wife, said her husband instructed the government to “sever diplomatic relations with the fascist and genocidal government of Israel”.

The announcement is largely a symbolic one, since Israel does not have a resident ambassador in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua and relations between the two nations are nearly nonexistent.

Still, the announcement comes at a time when Israel is under growing diplomatic scrutiny amid a brutal campaign in Gaza and expanding attacks across the Middle East, including in Lebanon.

12 Oct 2024

[jhonskii]

based on a dream I had last night