Sofia Montenegro
| Sofía Isabel Montenegro Alarcón | |
|---|---|
| Born |
15 February 1954 Ciudad Darío, Matagalpa Department, Nicaragua |
| Nationality | Nicaraguan |
| Occupation | journalist, feminist |
| Years active | 1979 - |
Sofía Montenegro Alarcón (born 15 February 1954) is an award winning Nicaraguan journalist, social researcher and feminist. Montenegro's family were militarily aligned with the Somoza forces, but her feminist and Marxist studies moved her to join with the opposition to Somoza. She fought in the Sandinista Revolution and though initially supportive of the Sandinista Party, has become an outspoken opponent of its move to the right. She served as an editor of various divisions of the official Sandinista newspaper Barricada until 1994, when she founded the Center for Communication Research (CINCO) as an independent research organization free of government bias. She has written many articles and books evaluating power, gender and social interaction.
Sofía Isabel Montenegro Alarcón was born 15 February 1954 in Ciudad Darío, Matagalpa Department, Nicaragua. Her father, Alfonso Montenegro, was a major in Anastasio Somoza Debayle's army. In 1968, to protect her from the violence in the country, Montenegro was sent to live with her sister in West Palm Beach, Florida where she finished high school and was exposed to feminist thought and Marxism for the first time. She returned to Nicaragua and though she passed the university entrance exams, her parents chose to send her brother to school abroad, rather than educating a woman.
Initially Montenegro enrolled in the School of Fine Arts to become a painter, but soon changed to journalism at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua and translated documents for foreign journalists to pay her way. She began writing articles for a Maoist newspaper published by the Movimiento de Acción Popular (Popular Action Movement). Despite her father's involvement with Somoza and her brother, Franklin Montenegro, being a torturer and member of the National Guard, Montenegro joined the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in 1978. She struggled to overcome the fear that her family name evoked in the Sandinista movement and became estranged from her mother when she refused to intervene in the death sentence of Franklin, when he was caught.
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