Between Orwell and Kafka

The Blood of Christ, calcined after the fire in the cathedral of Managua.OSWALDO RIVAS / Reuters

A friend who has surely never read Kafka, called Inspector Dolores Morales by phone the other day, who now retired has his private detective office in Managua, and who has not read Kafka either, and told him that it happens every day in Nicaragua a Kafkaesque situation: boys who were already in jail as political prisoners are recaptured, taken from their homes with all violence and without any judicial order, and taken to unknown detention centers, to be later sentenced by faceless judges through sentences that are already written in bullet points to only fill in ...

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