(Article written by our comrades from the Feministas Aragón por Nicaragua collective, published in the newsletter 'Colectividad' number 15 in March 2025). ---- These are painful times where global capital seeks to accustom us to genocide, dispossession, and violence. For years we have witnessed how authoritarian governments and dictatorships attempt to silence the people's cries with the use of excessive force. We know the smell of tear gas and the pain of the dead all too well; we are Nicaraguan feminists and have spent years denouncing crimes against humanity committed by the Daniel Ortega regime.
It is important to recognize that the dictators have not had it easy. They have faced resisting peoples, and so, like violent men, they respond with bullets and prison. In Chile, Colombia, Nicaragua, and now in Argentina, the people have not resigned themselves to the dismantling of the minimal rights they have achieved. However, it is clear that the mechanisms created by liberal democracies have failed, and we are experiencing a conservative wave that threatens life.
The fascists have understood this well. They know that capitalism is sustained by this alliance with the colonialist and patriarchal system; that is why, and not by chance, they have political programs that include the denial of trans rights, the criminalization or barriers to the right to abortion, deadly border policies, the rollback of labor rights, extractivism, and the dismantling of the welfare state. This predatory system is sustained by the exploitation of the majority for the privilege of a few; that is why they want us without papers, without a voice, without a safety net, and without homes. Bukele, Ortega, and Abascal are more alike than they would dare admit.
Black, anti-racist, and Indigenous feminists have reflected extensively on this fusion of systems of oppression, precisely because our lives are directly impacted by this violence. For a long time, feminists on the margins have been trying to build alternative frameworks for feminist thought and action, ones that forge bridges with other movements and create strong networks of solidarity.
It is urgent to understand that to build solid alliances between movements, we need to know and recognize each other, to examine our privileges and the violence that affects us, precisely because we are committed to a profound questioning of this system. Empathy must be one of our main tools for listening to one another. To humanize others.
There are beautiful actions being taken by collectives reorganizing and responding to the violence of the system. We are supporting and sheltering the exiles arriving in Spain from Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Argentina. Mothers searching for their disappeared children in Mexico and denouncing the complicity between the armed forces, the state, and drug cartels. Independent journalists who continue to publish reports of the rapes occurring in El Salvador and Nicaragua, even from exile.
Networks of clandestine abortions throughout Latin America supporting women condemned by anti-rights legislation. And now, with restrictive laws in the US, it is Mexican feminists who are providing abortion services across the border for the poorest and most vulnerable migrants in the US. And here in Spain, the #RegularizationNow movement has been a prime example of our organizational capacity and strength.
The genocide in Palestine, Trump's mass raids, and Vox's racist campaigns frighten, pain, and enrage us, but they will not be silenced or met with passivity. In many corners of the world, we continue to resist, to think, and to stand together. Here we are, still gathering in assemblies in our neighborhoods, denouncing the fact that the six from Zaragoza remain imprisoned under the gag law, occupying spaces, denouncing gender-based violence, and organizing neighborhood festivals, because joy has always been ours.
These are difficult times, yes, but we have never had it easy. It is urgent to continue building this strong, diverse, and pluralistic feminist, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist movement that expands the limits of what is possible. We will not stop, because our lives depend on it.
Feminists of Aragon for Nicaragua
https://apoyomutuoaragon.net/nuestra-ha-sido-siempre-la-resistencia
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Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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