Five years after the rebellion, Nicaraguan artists flourish in exile
Nicaragua
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“They do not exist”
“All the records have been erased…”
– Max Jerez
NICARAGUA AND SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS.- In an office in Managua, a municipal agent deletes files from the civil registry: marriage certificates, legal records, birth certificates. They belong to – Nobody.
This op-ed was published in Pie de Página on April 17, 2023. Follow this link to read the full article.
Written by Alessandro Zagato and Andrea Villa Franco, April 17, 2023.
Alessandro is the Regional Representative for Latin America at Artists at Risk Connection. He previously worked as a researcher on a project for the European Research Council at the University of Bergen, Norway. He holds a PhD in sociology from Maynooth University in Ireland.
Andrea focuses on protecting persecuted artists for Artists at Risk Connection. She is a graduate of the European Union’s Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree program (EMJMD) and has a Bachelor’s degree from Stanford University.