Gioconda Belli was stripped of her Nicaraguan passport two years ago. The current tyrant of Nicaragua snatched the passport along with 90 other citizens, including her son and brother.
Belli continues to write and take a position against corruption in her country, against the dictatorship there. She is now awarded the XXXII Reina Sofía Prize for Ibero-American Poetry, endowed with 42,000 euros and jointly convened by National Heritage and the University of Salamanca. She maintains the pulse of a woman of the left, a well-educated feminist, a voice that bursts through the margins of history.