MANAGUA, Nicaragua.- Every July 19, Nicaragua is a party, the Party of the Red and Black Revolution, which restored freedom to the country of Sandino 43 years ago. And this Tuesday, the culmination of celebrations that have swept the country, was no different.
The Plaza de la Revolución, an emblematic place where the Casa de los Pueblos, the Palace of Culture and the old Cathedral of Managua are located, a “survivor” of the 1972 earthquake, was the place chosen to host the central act of welcome to carry out the Nicaraguan victory that put an end to one of the region’s bloodiest dictatorships.
In the fall, President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo arrive at the Plaza. The ubiquitous flags of the Sandinista National Liberation Front wave in the hands of men and women, and the music tells stories of the revolution.
One by one, Rosario greeted the delegations who had come to share the Sandinista celebrations. And there is Cuba, represented by Politburo member and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz and Deputy Foreign Minister Josefina Vidal Ferreiro.
As a “heroic and invincible people”, inseparable brother of Sandino’s homeland, the vice-president cataloged the Caribbean island and mentioned, among others, the delegations from Venezuela and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
The latter nation’s Prime Minister, Ralph Gonsalves, was awarded the Order of Augusto C. Sandino at its highest level on the occasion, and the Nicaraguan President agreed to dedicate the 43rd anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution to this regional leader.
Music is again the common thread between one intervention and the next. The hustle and bustle fills every room, as Verónica Muñoz Torres, a saleswoman on Avenida de Bolívar a Chávez, another artery of the city where almost all the symbols of the revolution converge, had already told us that this happened every July 19th.
In his opinion, “Victory Day is a very special day that every Sandinista, every sympathizer of the revolutionary process looks forward to, and we entrepreneurs cannot escape this joy.”
His colleague Berardo Fulgencio Flores also agreed, assuring that “this date is celebrated by all of Nicaragua because it is clear what it means: regaining sovereignty, independence, equality, solidarity among colleagues and fraternity”.
And he also spoke of continuity because he thinks young people know why he fought in the mountains, for a land project that puts people first, which translates into more roads, more crops, more hospitals, more schools and… more puts down training.
For Chamil Romero, a collaborator at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, the celebration of the Sandinista triumph is part of the idiosyncrasy of this Central American country, and the youth are at the forefront, conscious of the importance of the history to which we must always return, socialism , attention to the dispossessed, compasses that revolutionaries cannot lose.
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