Sergio Ramírez is a Nicaraguan writer. He was vice-president of the country from 1984-90 during the period of the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) government. In 1995 he broke from the FSLN to form the Movimiento de Renovación Sandinista (MRS). His many books include El reino animal (Alfaguara, 2006) and Tambor Olvidado (Aguilar, 2007). He was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1993, and was awarded the Medalla Presidencial by the Chilean government to mark the centenary of Pablo Neruda’s birth in 2004. In 2005 he was a member of the jury granting the Lettre Ulysses award for the art of reportage. His website is here.

Recent articles

The Daniel Ortega regime's asphyxiation of the original Sandinista project is exemplified by its appropriation of the music of Nicaragua's revolutionary past as well as its politicised control of state institutions, says the country's former foreign minister Sergio Ramírez.

(This article was first published on 1 September 2008)

Daniel Ortega's return to power is proving to be the embrace of a regressive utopia behind which stands the caudillo's shadow, says Sergio Ramírez.

Nicaraguans have lived with their new president for three decades but still do not know where he will lead them, says former Sandinista vice-president Sergio Ramírez.

An electoral pact between presidential candidates Daniel Ortega and Arnoldo Alemán puts Nicaragua's democracy itself at stake, says the country's former vice-president Sergio Ramírez.

The sudden death of dissident Sandinista leader and presidential candidate Herty Lewites faces Nicaraguan voters with a fateful choice, says former vice-president Sergio Ramírez.