The Nicaraguan writer, who received an honorary doctorate from the University of Costa Rica, points out that only a repressive system sustains the Revolution
EFE (via 14ymedio), San José, 31 May 2024 — Gioconda Belli , the Nicaraguan writer exiled in Spain, declared this Thursday in Costa Rica her lack of love for the Cuban Revolution, which, she said, is a “failed attempt” that has been become “a stagnant ideological straitjacket sustained by a repressive system.”
After receiving an honorary doctorate from the state University of Costa Rica (UCR) for her contributions to culture, education and the fight for democracy and human rights, Belli reflected that victories can be as deceptive and illusory as defeats, and gave as an example the Cuban revolution of 1959.
“I remember when Fidel Castro’s bearded Cuban guerrillas were victorious in Cuba, the magazine that my father and mother read and the photography and the excitement of the elders around me for that Revolution,” the author of the book commented in her speech about her novela El país de las mujeres (The Country of Women), on winning the Latin American Prize for Literature From The Other Shore 2010.
“I myself, years later, admired and was dazzled by that romantic feat that, at this point, seems like a failed attempt to me.”
“I myself, years later, admired and was dazzled by that romantic feat that, at this point, seems to me to be a failed attempt, a stagnant ideological straitjacket sustained by a repressive system that has forced the Cuban people to go through misery, family separations, humiliations and sadness,” she argued.
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