dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch (eng/en)
künstler (in grau: assistent/in): Victor Canifrú, Alejandra Acuña Moya
titel: The Supreme Dream of Bolívar: The first inhabitants. Resistance to Invasion. Imposition of Cristianity and bloodshed. Cry and Horse of Liberation. Ruben Darío. United States as Death. Flags of Independence. Face of Sandino imagined old. Somoza's National Guard fights the insurrection. Building the New Nicaragua after the Revolution
jahr: 1983
adresse: Avenida Bolívar, Managua, Nicaragua
+: Acrilic mural, 2,5x10 m. Detroyed 1990 and 1991
«In October of 1990, the neoliberal mayor of Managua Arnoldo Alemán (Judge under Somoza, President of Nicaragua 1997–2002), during the presidency of Violeta Chamorro begin a systematic destruction of murals created during the revolutionary period, destroying the most central and well-known mural, the 100m long, El Sueño Supremo de Bolívar located on the Avenue Bolívar. The erasure of the El Sueño Supremo de Bolívar […] and the murals that followed it resulted in public outcry against what Guillermo Pérez Leiva described as a blatant act government censorship, not unlike the book burnings of Nazi Germany […]. Though Alemán claimed that “that maintenance workers has misinterpreted a mandate to “erase political pintas (party and electoral slogans) as an order to obliterate pinturas (paintings)” […] many categorized the destruction in what Nicaraguan poet and art critic Julio Valle articulates as a government attempt “turn back the clock, deny the rebirth of Nicaragua, deny Sandino and the Revolution,” […].» (Finney, 2015)
