{"id":166642,"date":"2025-05-13T11:35:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T17:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/sin-categoria\/gioconda-belli-i-carry-nicaragua-with-me-and-no-one-can-take-it-away\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T10:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:04:36","slug":"gioconda-belli-i-carry-nicaragua-with-me-and-no-one-can-take-it-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/english\/gioconda-belli-i-carry-nicaragua-with-me-and-no-one-can-take-it-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Gioconda Belli: \u201cI Carry Nicaragua With Me, and No One Can Take It Away\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the weekend, Nicaraguan writer Gioconda Belli, who has been living in exile in Madrid since 2022, presented her novel <em>Un silencio lleno de murmullos<\/em> (\u201cA Silence Full of Murmurings\u201d) at the Buenos Aires Book Fair in Argentina. In an interview with EFE, she said her country is living under a \u201ctyranny\u201d and voiced concern over the rise of authoritarianism around the world.<br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cI really feel that I\u2019m who I am wherever I may be, because it\u2019s taken a lot to become who I am. Nicaragua is with me all the time. I always say that my country is so small it\u2019s portable; I carry it with me, and no one can take it away from me,\u201d the author stated, speaking of her exile and the impossibility of returning to her native country.<\/p>\n\n<p>In 2023, forty-four years after taking part in the Sandinista movement that overthrew Anastacio Somoza in 1979 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/revista-niu\/gioconda-belli-sobre-su-exilio-nada-ha-sido-en-vano-no-creo-en-la-absoluta-decepcion\/\">Gioconda Belli was stripped of her nationality and all her assets<\/a>, together with 93 other intellectuals. The order came from her former comrade-in-arms, now President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, who back then had emerged as a key spokesperson for the movement.<\/p>\n\n<p>The author and poet\u2019s new book reflects her disillusionment with what she describes as \u201cthe collapse of the political project\u201d in her country.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cIt tells of overcoming a great defeat. In Nicaragua, after a revolution,<a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/nacion\/gioconda-belli-hay-una-esperanza-de-cambio-pero-no-a-corto-plazo\/\"> we now have a tyranny again,\u201d<\/a> she declared, adding that within the novel is \u201cthe story of what happened in Nicaragua over the last few years, which isn\u2019t very well known at an international level.\u201d <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-la-culpa-de-maternar\">The guilt of motherhood<\/h2>\n\n<p>In addition to the theme of the revolution and Nicaraguan identity, <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/revista-niu\/gioconda-belli-noveliza-las-voces-silenciadas-por-la-represion\/\"><em>Un silencio lleno de murmullos,<\/em> published in 2024,<\/a> takes on another central theme: motherhood. <br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n<p>The novel follows Penelope, a woman who, after the death of her guerrilla mother, confronts her past and family secrets while confined in Madrid during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201c[It\u2019s] a story that many of us women have lived: feminine guilt \u2013 that conflict between forging our lives and caring for our children. There\u2019s always a contradiction between those two roles,\u201d Gioconda Belli explained.<\/p>\n\n<p>She shared that the work has been well received on a world level, because its themes are universal: <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/revista-niu\/gioconda-belli-ser-mujer-y-escribir-sobre-cosas-de-mujeres-me-hizo-pagar-un-precio\/\">\u201cwomen, children, motherhood.\u201d <\/a>The theme of struggle, of the search for justice. The issue of defeat. We all want to understand in some way what to do with defeats, how not to become depressed, how not to lose hope.\u201d   <\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThe novel leaves a feeling of hope, which continues to be something very revolutionary,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Gioconda-Belli-en-Buenos-Aires-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-166567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Gioconda-Belli-en-Buenos-Aires-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Gioconda-Belli-en-Buenos-Aires-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Gioconda-Belli-en-Buenos-Aires-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Gioconda-Belli-en-Buenos-Aires-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Gioconda-Belli-en-Buenos-Aires.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nicaraguan writer Gioconda Belli poses after an interview with EFE news agency in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 11, 2025. \/\/ Photo: EFE\/ Juan Ignacio Roncoroni <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-gioconda-belli-en-el-escenario-pandemico\">A novel set in the pandemic<\/h2>\n\n<p>The author affirmed that the Covid-19 pandemic was the perfect setting for her story, since it allowed her to portray the characters in solitude and isolation.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThat solitude was key to the characters\u2019 development. It\u2019s not a novel about the pandemic, but it plays an important role. It also speaks of how we continued working, living, even experiencing our sexuality, which has almost never been discussed in that context,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n<p>The novel also closes a personal trilogy for Gioconda Belli, that began with <em>La Mujer Habitada <\/em>[\u201cThe Inhabited Woman\u201d], first published in 1988, and continued in 2001 with <em>El pais bajo mi piel<\/em> [\u201cThe country under my skin\u201d]. \u201cThis third novel closes a cycle. I wanted to explore the mother-daughter tie. It\u2019s not my life, it\u2019s fiction, but obviously, there\u2019s a connection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cWhen you give yourself over to a dream as large as a revolution \u2013 What happens with the people around you? To speak of my daughters, recognize their contribution since the time they were very small, was also part of this,\u201d she highlighted.<\/p>\n\n<p>The novel, written over two years, is, according to the author, a complex, psychological work with elements of suspense.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cIt has enough elements to hold your attention. It\u2019s not extremely long. It was difficult for me to write, but I feel like it\u2019s well put together,\u201d she commented.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-momento-oscuro-de-la-humanidad\">&#8220;Dark moment of humanity.&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n<p>Gioconda Belli also spoke of her concerns about the rise of authoritarian and right-wing governments all over the world. She feels that humanity is entering a \u201cdark moment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>The author particularly emphasized the rise to power of presidents such as Donald Trump in the United States, Javier Milei in Argentina, and Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, and warned of the dangerous scorn for \u201ccertain values that were previously universal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>She linked the rise of this type of figure to the achievements of feminism. \u201cI believe we\u2019re in a period of backlash, precisely because we\u2019ve advanced so much. Today, men feel threatened and there\u2019s a struggle against women. (\u2026) Men have lost their sense of identity based on domination and haven\u2019t found their sense of identity based on equality.<\/p>\n\n<p>In this \u201cdark\u201d context, Gioconda Belli highlighted Spain, a country she says received her with open arms and which she considers politically interesting for being \u201cthe most resistant democracy in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, Nicaraguan writer Gioconda Belli, who has been living in exile in Madrid since 2022, presented her novel Un silencio lleno de murmullos (\u201cA Silence Full of Murmurings\u201d) at the Buenos Aires Book Fair in Argentina. 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