The Death of Leonel Rugama<\/strong><\/p>\nBack in the day on January 15th, 1970, Nicaraguan guerrilla poet Leonel Rugama was killed in battle. Born of a father who worked as a carpenter and a mother who was a teacher, the young Central American wordsmith enrolled in the National Seminary in Managua where he struck a friendship with famed poet and liberation theologian Ernesto Cardenal. Decidedly a leftist, Rugama then went on to join with the Sandinista National Liberation Front in 1967 and later organized students in revolutionary solidarity at a University in Leon. Three years later, the twenty-year old poet found himself engaged in a fierce battle with a National Guard battalion of the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua. He died alongside his fellow young comrades only to have his poetry live on. Rugama\u2019s most famous poem \u201cThe Earth is a Satellite of the Moon\u201d is noted in Latin American literature and his life was eulogized in Eduardo Galeano\u2019s \u201cMemory of Fire\u201d Trilogy.<\/p>\n
Foreshadowing his own demise, the slain soldier-poet penned his epitaph in a poem by the same name when he penned, \u201cHere lie the mortal remains\/ of one who in life \/ searched without relief for \/ one by one \/ your face on every bus in the city\u201d <\/p>\n
For Uprising, this is your truth professa’ saying it’s no mystery why they conceal our people’s history<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"| the entire program The Death of Leonel Rugama Back in the day on January 15th, 1970, Nicaraguan guerrilla poet Leonel Rugama was killed in battle. Born of a father who worked as a carpenter and a mother who was a teacher, the young Central American wordsmith enrolled in the National Seminary in Managua where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subversive-historian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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