Nuestra América

In the organizer's words:

"Two women in uniform. A revolution. One poem. Memories of a country that no longer exists." After 20 years, Kristina Konrad returns to Nicaragua in search of two Sandinista resistance fighters whom she interviewed in the 1980s after the fall of the Somoza dictatorship about their role as women in the struggle for freedom. Euphoric at the time by the promises of the revolution and the collective dream of a new Nicaragua, the country has become what it never wanted to be - corrupt as normal, neoliberal as normal. In her astutely poetic, yet empathetic style, Konrad traces the past together with her protagonists: the frustration over the failure of the socialist utopia and what remains of the revolutionary ideas.

Kristina Konrad is our guest