Abstract

DEGRAVE, Analisa. Martha María Romero Mejía: steps toward Independence. Faces de Eva. Estudos sobre a Mulher [online]. 2023, n.50, pp.205-218.  Epub Feb 21, 2024. ISSN 0874-6885.  https://doi.org/10.34619/2deb-rzvi.

Abstract: In this interview-testimonio Martha María Romero Mejía, describes pivotal experiences in her life - child abandonment, sexual and psychological abuse, being a single mother, witnessing the 2018 protests against President Daniel Ortega, her name being added to the government’s “blacklist,” and surviving an odyssey to reach Costa Rica. She offers a personal optic to the 2018 crisis and context to authoritarianism, surveillance, and the economy in today’s Nicaragua. From her position as a refugee, she explains how she became a piñata artist and entrepreneur and the meaning of the word “refugee”.

Keywords : authoritarianism; migration; Nicaragua; refugee; women’s empowerment; violence.

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