Leonel rugama poems for kids

By John Kotula

Over the last couple of weeks, I have lent a hand on the restoration of a mural on the long wall in front of the Ajax Delgado municipal police headquarters in Managua.

Leonel rugama poems for kids

This large complex is named after a student activist who fought against the Somoza regime and was murdered on September 5, at the age of The young painters I worked with were from the Movimiento Cultural Leonel Rugama. Rugama was also a revolutionary and martyr, killed in a notorious shoot out on January 15, , two months short of his 21st birthday.

He was also a renowned poet whose reputation has grown over the decades since his death.

There are five or six young men working on the project. They are a friendly, energetic, and talented group. Since I have grandchildren their age, I am struck by their youth and also that they are about the same age as the martyrs the police station and their cultural organization are named after.

The mural has both faded and da