Una visi n de doble fondo en cuanto a la naturaleza volc nica del pa s, que a su vez se repite en su historia con sus sacudimientos, explosiones y llamaradas. El 18 de abril de 2018 el pa s al que me hab a mudado poco m s de un a o antes comenzaba a hacer erupci n. En esos d as estaba a mitad de la reporter a sobre la relaci n de los nicarag enses con sus volcanes . Estas cuatro l neas dan inicio a un libro que consta de 12 cr nicas escritas en Nicaragua. Sabrina Duque, ecuatoriana, ten a en marcha el proyecto con el que gan la Beca Michael Jacobs de Cr nica Viajera, que concede la Fundaci n Gabriel Garc a M rquez para el Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, el Hay Festival de Cartagena y The Michael Jacobs Foundation for Travel Writing. En el camino , sigue la autora, la coyuntura me atropell . Sin renunciar al proyecto inicial, Sabrina no pudo dejar de incorporar lo que est pasando en Nicaragua a partir -y antes- de aquella fecha fat dica del 18 de abril, en la que, al igual que un volc n que hubiese estado dormido, los nietos de la revoluci n estallaron y, con ellos, inici una lucha pac fica en contra de la dictadura Ortega-Murillo, tan parecida a la de Somoza, presente todav a en la memoria de los padres y abuelos de estos j venes. Volc Nica -que contrae las palabras volcanes y Nicaragua, y que adem s deja constancia de la manera en la que los centroamericanos nos referimos a los nicarag enses, nicas- es, en palabras de Sergio Ram rez, un reportaje agudo, intenso, perspicaz, escrito por una joven periodista que ha viajado intensamente por el territorio de Nicaragua, y ofrece una visi n de doble fondo en cuanto a la naturaleza volc nica del pa s, que a su vez se repite en su historia con sus sacudimientos, explosiones y llamaradas. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A double-layered vision of the volcanic nature of Nicaragua, which is also reflected in its history of shake-ups, explosions, and outbursts. “On April 18 of 2018, the country I had moved to a little over a year before started to erupt. At that time I was halfway through reporting on the relationship between Nicaraguans and their volcanoes.” Those lines kick off a book that consists of 12 chronicles written in Nicaragua. Sabrina Duque, from Ecuador, was working on the project that won her the Michael Jacobs Travel Writing Grant, which is awarded by the Gabriel Garc a M rquez New Journalism Foundation, the Cartagena Hay Festival, and the Michael Jacobs Foundation for Travel Writing. “Along the way,” she continues, “the situation trampled me.” Without giving up on her initial project, Sabrina couldn’t help but incorporate what is happening in Nicaragua as of–and before–that fateful April 18th in which, like a volcano that had been dormant, “the grandchildren of the revolution” burst onto the scene and with them, a peaceful fight against Ortega-Murillo’s dictatorship, which is so like that of Somoza, still fresh in the memories of the young peoples’ parents and grandparents. VolcaNica–which combines the word volcanic and the Central American nickname for Nicaraguans, nicas –is, in the words of Sergio Ram rez, “acute, intense, insightful reporting, written by a young journalist who has traveled intensely around Nicaragua, and offers a double-layered vision of the country’s volcanic nature, which is also reflected in its history of shake-ups, explosions, and outbursts.
