30 years Sandinista Revolution

30 years after the victory

what is left of Sandinismus?

On 19 July 1979 winner of the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. They chased the dictator Somoza to the devil. On the same day over in June 1979 in Costa Rica, founded Regierungsjunta business. It was all stock represented by the FSLN with Daniel Ortega to the bourgeois alliance with FAO Alfonso Robelo. All were from the FSLN, 29 Program announced in May the National reconstruction acknowledged. Nevertheless, did the dispute. 1981 left Robelo Chamorro and the Government, the latter came into the Contra-Executive.
The FSLN now reigned alone. She organized the literacy, health care design and education in order. Country propertyless laborers and farm workers received land from the Somoza-owned. Cooperative emerged. Somoza-owned enterprises have been working. For 1984, the FSLN appointed elections which they won. Daniel Ortega became president. 1987, the FSLN initiated by the new Constitution came into force.
The Nicaraguan oligarchy and the U.S. administration, the Sandinista revolution was a thorn in the eye. They organized the Contra war and economic boycott. As the leadership of the Soviet Union in 1987 the Sandinistas dropped the Contra war and peace in the entire Central American region at risk, saw the Sandinista government in negotiations with the Contra leadership is the only way out. They took the peace for which the FSLN, but the expensive price of power paid. She lost the 1990 election against an alliance of 17 parties which Violeta Chamorro was invoked.

What is the Sandinismus gone? The round of talks of the "Long Night" in Germany in September 1995 Funk replied: "Ruined dreams." Others say: "Danielismus and neoliberalism." We think: "Everything."
The Sandinismus is the vision of the patriots from a Nicaraguan community in which milk and honey flow, independent and sovereign, and that in a large brotherhood with the Latin American and Caribbean peoples lives together. The ideas are the Sandinos of Bolivar, Sucre, Marti and others who oppose the European and North American colonialism and interventionism own oligarchy fought. The idea Sandinismus is a mixture of humanism, Christianity and Marxism.

1990 in Nicaragua, no system of society. A political force which at that time still was not a party, lost the election. 1991, from the politico-military organization to the FSLN party FSLN. This took 16 years until they have elections again came to power. Your left critics from Germany are probably a few years longer before they will succeed.

The FSLN continued to struggle one. I. At the 1991 Congress on two lines to the debate. By Sergio Ramirez, Vice President of the Ortega government, stated, represented a reformist approach. The other, represented by Daniel Ortega, wanted "the neoliberal policy has a revolutionary answer." The Ortega-direction prevailed. The FSLN Group of the National Assembly was the balance of power differently. Of the 38 deputies were 30 to Ramirez. They started against the party line. 1995 Ramirez split the group and founded the wing of the Sandinista Renewal Movement (MRS). He was succeeded by Marie Dora Tellez, Monica Baltodano, Victor Hugo Tinoco, and others. The MRS-grouping of the group gave the seats of the FSLN in the Supreme Electoral Council, the Supreme Court and the Prosecutor General of Civil splinter parties of the crumbling alliance of Mrs. Chamorro.

In 1996, the FSLN in the presidential election 42 percent of the votes. It looked like the sure winner. Then the Supreme Electoral Council conjured up 54 percent for the Liberal Party (PLC) Arnoldo Alemán of the retort. The country faced a political crisis.

Should a president from an electoral fraud will be introduced, or new elections take place? In this situation, the PLC gave the FSLN a contract: if the FSLN recognize the election results, they will receive in return their seats in the instances and the results of agricultural reform will not be canceled. That was the FSLN On. The MRS-wing had lost the plot. Ramirez 1998, from all political posts back.

In May 2006, the Sandinista innovator in Miami with the three middle-presidential candidate a deal. In the case of a second round, they wanted to the favorite of the U.S. administration to support Eduardo Montealegre. They landed in the neo-liberal camp, and with them the members of the National Historic Henry led Ruiz and Victor Tirado. That is regrettable. It is also regrettable that the German left by them for advice when it comes to the FSLN's. Today, the MRS of foundations from the USA and the EU-funded space.

In November 2006, voted 38 percent of Nicaraguans Daniel Ortega to their president. The FSLN, now nearly 100,000 members with 5.5 million inhabitants, has adopted the Sandinista project again. She could Munizipalwahlen in 2008, expanded positions. The dream of a brother of the Confederation of Latin American and Caribbean nations is in the Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas (ALBA) form. The FSLN has again the transformation of society will be launched. It emerged the power of the citizen councils as organs of direct democracy. The literacy is still in this year of 1990 levels to be achieved. The health system was reorganized. In education and health to help Cuban friends. With the help of Venezuela, the energy and fuel supply stabilized. For the small and medium-sized family farming, the programs were "zero hunger" and "zero usury" open. Agricultural production is mainly about them will be stimulated. Nicaragua is in a position to own the basic shopping cart with 7 basic products and to guarantee rice, maize and beans in Honduras and El Salvador to deliver. Venezuela receives beef.

To Daniel Ortega. He likes to Nicaragua not be loved by all. He deserves respect, however. He has the FSLN on the neoliberal year. It determines the strategic line of the FSLN. He has the dirt, the FSLN has been unloaded on itself. He enjoys recognition among peers in Latin America and the Caribbean. At international meetings, he is consistently anti-imperialist positions. His opponents are sorry that you do not disconnect from the FSLN, and that the new process without the FSLN in Nicaragua, is unthinkable.
From the Sandinista revolution is not just something left. It is under new conditions. That was, is and remains the historic merit of the FSLN.
Wolfgang Herrmann, Dreesch