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The acclaimed Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ram\u00edrez, winner of the Cervantes Prize, turned 83 years old in August 2025. CONFIDENCIAL<\/strong> is publishing a documentary that explores his life and literary work, now overshadowed by forced exile due to an arrest warrant and his subsequent denationalization ordered by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo in Nicaragua. The documentary premiered on Sunday, September 14, on the program Esta Semana on YouTube and Facebook Live. <\/p>\n\n

The documentary was recorded in several locations, including the National Palace of Culture in Guatemala City, where Ram\u00edrez presided over the Centroam\u00e9rica Cuenta Festival, which in 2025 reached its twelfth edition. It was also filmed in his apartment in Madrid, Spain. <\/p>\n\n

The writer reflects on the different stages of his life: his early years in Masatepe, his political formation at the University of Le\u00f3n, his time in Costa Rica and Germany, and his participation in the Sandinista revolution. He also speaks about leaving politics and dedicating himself fully to literature. <\/p>\n\n

A documentary with many voices and anecdotes<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

In addition to Ram\u00edrez\u2019s testimony and anecdotes, the documentary includes the opinions of national and international figures on the global significance of his literature. Among them: Luis Garc\u00eda Montero, director of the Cervantes Institute; writer Alma Guillermoprieto; journalist Pepa Bueno; Pilar Reyes, director of his publishing house; former Costa Rican president Luis Guillermo Sol\u00eds; and former guerrilla fighter and historian Dora Mar\u00eda Tellez, his friend of several decades. <\/p>\n\n

Ram\u00edrez\u2019s first short story was published in 1956 in the literary section of La Prensa<\/em> newspaper edited by Pablo Antonio Cuadra. It was titled La Carreta Nagua<\/em>, and Cuadra subtitled it Version from Masatepe, believing it to be something the young author had heard. But in fact, it was pure invention. Ram\u00edrez explained to CONFIDENCIAL<\/strong> that he was 14 at the time, and his grandmother asked him to read it in public at a celebration, but he hid and refused to do it. \u201cFor the first time, I realized that literature has this power of deception, of simulating what it is not.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

The university and his first novel<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

When he went to study law at the University of Leon, Nicaragua\u2019s most prestigious university, he met rector Mariano Fiallos, of whom he became a disciple. <\/p>\n\n

Ram\u00edrez recalls in the documentary that Fiallos turned the University into an ethical stronghold. \u201cHis voice was heard when he pointed out social ills and deficits, criticized the dictatorship, and denounced abuses. He was always close to the students, sitting on benches to chat with them. I could go to his house and enter his library with great trust.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

In 1969, after marrying Gertrudis \u201cTulita\u201d Guerrero, he moved to Costa Rica to work at the Central American University Council, where he published his first novel Tiempo de Fulgor.<\/p>\n\n

In 1973, he left for Germany on a literary scholarship, where he wrote the novel \u00bfTe dio miedo la sangre? (Did the Blood Scare You?).<\/p>\n\n

The political struggle of Sergio Ramirez<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

While living in West Berlin in 1975, he received an offer to write scripts at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris. He declined, however, because he decided to return to Nicaragua with a very clear objective. <\/p>\n\n

\u201cAt that moment, I knew clearly that what I wanted was to return to Nicaragua, to join the rebellion against Somoza. And I think it was the right decision at that time. It would have pained me greatly to later learn in Paris that the Nicaraguan Revolution had triumphed without me,\u201d Ram\u00edrez said during the interview in Guatemala.<\/p>\n\n

The author of the memoir Adi\u00f3s Muchachos revealed that he has been urged to write about his role in the revolution to respond to criticisms of his past as a government leader in the 1980s, but concludes that he will not sacrifice his time as a writer.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cI am interested in consolidating a literary work, not in defending my political figure. In today\u2019s polarized world, that would be like plowing the sea,\u201d Ram\u00edrez affirms.<\/p>\n\n

In front of CONFIDENCIAL\u2019s<\/strong> camera, Ram\u00edrez recalls leaving government in 1990 and trying to return to literature after feeling liberated from politics. Later, he joined the Sandinista parliamentary bloc, where he was elected head of the group. Four years later, alongside other parties, he supported constitutional reforms that institutionalized democratic transition and peaceful alternation of power\u2014leading to a deep rupture with Daniel Ortega. In February 1995, after weeks of smear campaigns by Ortega\u2019s allies, he resigned from the party and founded the Sandinista Renovation Movement, with which he ran for president. His son, Sergio Ram\u00edrez Guerrero, states that his father had to lose the election by such a wide margin\u2014receiving around 1%\u2014to understand that he should return fully to literature. <\/p>\n\n

The vocation of a writer<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

After leaving politics in 1996, Sergio Ram\u00edrez fully embraced his vocation as a writer, exploring multiple literary genres. He wrote novels such as Un baile de m\u00e1scaras, Sombras nada m\u00e1s, and Margarita, est\u00e1 linda la mar, with which he won the Alfaguara Prize in 1998. He also published collections of short stories, essays, and testimonies, including Adi\u00f3s Muchachos, his personal memoir of the Sandinista revolution. <\/p>\n\n

After 2000, he published La Fugitiva, Sara, Mil y una muertes, and a trilogy of detective novels: El cielo llora por m\u00ed, Ya nadie llora por m\u00ed, and Tongolele no sab\u00eda bailar, the latter censored by the regime. <\/p>\n\n

He rapidly conquered readers and international prizes. In 2017, he won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in Spanish Literature, the highest recognition for Spanish and Latin American writers. The award ceremony, traditionally presided over by the Spanish monarchs, took place on April 23, 2018, when social protests in Nicaragua had been ongoing for five days. <\/p>\n\n

Wearing a black ribbon on his suit lapel, Ram\u00edrez dedicated the prize, at the University of Alcal\u00e1 auditorium, \u201cto the memory of Nicaraguans who in recent days have been murdered in the streets for demanding justice and democracy, and to the thousands of young people who continue to fight with no weapons other than their ideals, so that Nicaragua may once again be a republic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

The exile of Sergio Ram\u00edrez<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

In 2021, the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship issued an arrest warrant against him for alleged acts \u201cthat foster or incite hatred and violence\u201d and ordered his detention and the seizure of his properties. Banished from Nicaragua, Sergio Ram\u00edrez first settled in San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica, and later in Madrid, Spain. <\/p>\n\n

In February 2023, the regime included his name on a list of 94 citizens stripped of their Nicaraguan nationality, accusing them of \u201ctreason against the homeland.\u201d The list included academics, journalists, and artists. Upon receiving the news, he wrote on social media: \u201cNicaragua is all that I am and all that I have. I will never stop being, nor stop having, my memory and my recollections, my language and my writing, my struggle for its freedom, to which I have pledged my word. The more of Nicaragua they take from me, the more Nicaragua I have.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

Nearly 30 years after leaving politics, speaking from his apartment in Madrid, the writer insists he does not feel foreign in Spain, but he does feel far from Nicaragua.<\/p>\n\n

I have to return to a country that we can all return to, where there are at least minimum guarantees of democracy, of freedoms, and where there is freedom of information. I don\u2019t know if it will happen in my lifetime, but I have no doubt it will happen,\u201d he said, adding that if he were to return to Nicaragua, he would go straight to Masatepe from the airport.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cI long to see my town again, the surrounding area, the plateau, which is where I grew up and which, visually, first and foremost represents the country for me,\u201d he shares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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