30 years Sandinista Revolution

Nicaragua celebrates

Monday, 20 July 2009

A huge human sea under the red and black flags of the Sandinista Liberation Front FSLN decided on Sunday in Managua yesterday, the 30th Anniversary of the victory of the revolution about the bloody Somoza dictatorship celebrated. On 19 July 1979 were the victorious guerrillas of the FSLN in the Nicaraguan capital withdrawn, the dictator had previously fled to the United States.

At the big rally in the Plaza Juan Pablo II, participating in the center of Managua, next to the Nicaraguan President and former revolutionary leader Daniel Ortega, the Venezuelan President Cilia Flores and Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro, while Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez because of health problems did apologize. From Guatemala was Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchú geeilt after Nicaragua, Honduras was the lawful Foreign Minister Patricia Rodas represented.

Many speakers recalled the great achievements of the Sandinista revolution and the new Sandinista Government, including during the festivities officially announced elimination of illiteracy, programs to free medical care, the cost-free education and housing program.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega criticized in his speech opening the three U.S. military bases in Colombia. This will begin Colombia, can be a threat to Latin America to be, said Ortega. Colombia would be for an occupied country and a threat from an arms race in the region could emerge. The United States by the three bases in Colombia, the Manta base in Ecuador to replace the closure of the local government of Rafael Correa had enforced.

Instead of military bases should love the United States schools, homes and hospitals built, Ortega called and reminded its North American counterpart Barack Obama because of this respectful relations have spoken.
With a view to ultimately unsuccessful mediation efforts of the Costa Rican President Oscar Arias said Ortega, this is only an instrument of policy coup by the U.S. administration, in advance of the impending coup in Honduras have known: "Come to me not so that the Yankee no secret of the coup have known, so who should believe a lie? "