Word: nicaraguan
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...While the project will initially help the community of La Prusia learn how to make ceramics, an art which was once a part of traditional Nicaraguan culture, the program hopes to eventually extend beyond the potter’s wheel, teaching these families how to market their business in order to obtain a profit...
...Murillo has even tried to reinvent the feminist movement in her own image by penning an Orwellian essay called "Feminism and Low Intensity War." Murillo's feminist manifesto is intended to change the way Nicaraguan women look at feminism, but her views will hardly be deemed transformative - she lauds the traditional role of a woman as wife and mother, and rails against other feminists as "counterrevolutionaries" who "dress in the clothing of women, but have never known the sensibility of a woman's heart...
...Nicaraguan journalist and feminist leader Sofia Montenegro, a central target in the government's crackdown, predicts Ortega's "psychologically vulgar and manipulative campaign" will eventually boomerang on him. Montenegro says the personal nature of the attacks against her have been so crass that even the machista element of Nicaraguan society is rejecting what many view as a cowardly persecution of women. "Men think: that could be my sister, or my wife," she said...
...When a person is accustomed to viewing history as a process that is out of his or her control, that person can easily accept a political or religious leader who plays the role of God on earth," said Andres Perez Baltodano, a Nicaraguan political science professor at the University of Western Ontario...
...When he began seeking reelection, Ortega realized he needed to make nice with the conservative church hierarchy, so he reconciled with one of his staunchest opponents from the 1980s, the head of the Nicaraguan Catholic Church, Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo. Ortega took communion from Obando y Bravo in 2004, and then asked the cardinal to preside over his marriage to Murillo...