Sergio Ramírez’s Eight-Year Sentence: How Nicaragua Turned a Nobel-Shortlisted Novelist into Global Must-Read Literature
Sergio Ramírez, the 79-year-old Nicaraguan novelist who once served as Daniel Ortega’s vice-president, has just been sentenced in absentia to eight years in a Managua courtroom for “conspiracy to undermine national integrity.” That’s bureaucratese for writing books the regime now finds inconvenient. Meanwhile, in Geneva, the UN politely clears its throat; in Madrid, PEN International…