Photographs by Carlos Herrera. MANAGUA The town bell rang out at 3 a.m. on Friday, February 28, in Santa Clara, a Miskito community in the northern Caribbean region of Nicaragua. As people woke up, they knew a bell at that hour could only mean one thing: they were under attack. Settlers, known as “colonos,” who infringe
Indigenous groups in eastern Nicaragua continuously face violent attacks led by the militant arms of logging, mining, and farming enterprises seeking to exploit the area’s largely untouched land.