“Living in Exile: Carlos Mejia Godoy” premiered on May 18 at Café Frida Gallery, in Santa Rosa, and recounted Mejia Godoy’s journey from Nicaragua to Santa Rosa.įor the film’s debut, Mejia Godoy’s colorful paintings were on display around the cafe’s patio and he performed with a pair of musicians who drove hours to attend the film’s showing. Mejia Godoy’s presence in Sonoma County caught the attention of Jon Silver, a Santa Cruz County-based filmmaker, who created a documentary about Mejia Godoy. “If I hadn’t spent so much time outside of Nicaragua, I don’t think I would have begun painting,” he said.Ī self-taught painter, he works throughout the night, vibrantly recreating Somoto as he dreams it, he said.
He continues to perform locally, but he also took up a new craft during the pandemic: painting. But more than anything, I like California,” he said. They were stuck here during the pandemic and opted to stay. Mejia Godoy and his wife, Xochitl Jimenez, fled to Costa Rica where they stayed for a year before coming to his sister’s home in Santa Rosa in 2019.
Ortega, a Sandinista who is now considered a dictator, is in the midst of his fourth straight term as president since winning his most-recent election as president in 2007.
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In 2018, he criticized the leadership of Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega who initially became head of the country’s provisional government in 1979 and was then elected president from 1984 to 1990 after the country’s first free elections.
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