[2] Tous se souviennent de la période sandiniste des années 1980, qui a endeuillé toutes les familles, et de la fracture de la société, qui perdure plus ou moins, entre les socialistes élus du FSLN, combattus par les "Contras" soutenus par la dictature Argentine et les USA de Reagan (qui ont essayé de les financer avec des magouilles de vente d'armes, affaire "IranGate").

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¿Quién era Roberto Samcam? El opositor nicaragüense asesinado en Costa Rica

¿Quién era Roberto Samcam? El opositor nicaragüense asesinado en Costa Rica
Por Diego Bazzani  El opositor nicaragüense Roberto Samcam fue asesinado el jueves 19 de junio en la capital de Costa Rica. Varios colectivos disidentes vincularon al régimen de Daniel Ortega y Rosario Murillo con el hecho. Samcam era un antiguo [...]

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https://elmundo.cr/mundo/quien-era-roberto-samcam-el-opositor-nicaraguense-asesinado-en-costa-rica/

Today in Labor History May 18, 1895: Augusto Sandino was born. Sandino led the original Sandinista movement for Nicaraguan independence and fought a protracted war against the U.S. occupation. One of their manifestos read, “it is better to be killed as a rebel than to live on as a slave.” While in exile in Mexico during the early 1920s, Sandino participated in strikes led by the IWW. Inspired by the anarcho-syndicalist union, he adopted their red and black logo as the colors for the revolutionary Nicaraguan flag.

The U.S. Marines occupied Nicaragua from August 4, 1912 until January 2, 1933, when Juan Sacasa took over as president. Sacasa put Anastasio Somoza in charge of the hated Guardia Nacional. Sacasa met privately with Sandino and won his support. However, Sandino continued to call for the dismantling of the Guardia Nacional. So, Somoza assassinated him in 1934. After that, the Somoza dynasty ruled Nicaragua until the FSLN (Sandinista Nation Liberation Front), named after Augusto Sandino, overthrew them in 1979.

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On Wednesday, Nicaraguans celebrated the 90th death anniversary of Gen. Augusto Cesar Sandino, the leader of the resistance to U.S. imperialism during the early 20th century.

At the ceremony held in Managua, a speaker recalled the San Albino manifesto, a document that summarizes the reasons why Sandino fought to defend Nicaraguan sovereignty. “For General Sandino, the father of the Nicaraguan revolution and anti-imperialist struggle… the people never surrender or sell themselves,” he said to the young citizens present at the tribute to the historic revolutionary leader.

Born on May 18, 1895 in Niquinohomo, Sandino became the leader of the Nicaraguan resistance against the American occupation army. In 1912, during his youth, he witnessed the first intervention of American troops in Nicaragua.

Later, Sandino fought against the troops of different U.S.-backed governments, which allowed him to gain popular admiration and gather some 3,000 men in his ranks. Thus he began a guerrilla force that fought U.S. troops and its local lackeys from the jungles of Nueva Segovia.

In the 1920s, Sandino traveled to Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico, where he expanded his political relations and became imbued with unionist, socialist and anarchist ideas.

“He learned about the union struggles, the U.S. aggression against Mexico to achieve control of the oil fields, the Mexican Revolution, and the constant struggles of the working class,” the Mexican National Commission on Human Rights recalled on its website.

In 1926, Sandino returned to his country to initially fight alongside the liberal troops in defense of the sovereignty of Nicaragua. Shortly after, in 1927, he began the fight against the U.S.-backed government of Jose Maria Moncada and formed the “Army in Defense of the National Sovereignty of Nicaragua.”

This happened at a time when Nicaraguan elites signed the Tipitapa Agreement, a peace agreement that allowed the perpetual presence of U.S. troops in Nicaragua.

In response to this handover of the Central American country to Washington, Sandino began a guerrilla war against U.S. troops and the Nicaraguan National Guard.

In 1928, the ranks of the Sandino’s army were fed by members of the Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas, among whom would be Farabundo Marti, the Salvadoran revolutionary who became involved in the Nicaraguan struggle and and became a colonel in the guerrilla army.

Faced with the impossibility of defeating Sandino, President Herbert C. Hoover ordered the withdrawal of U.S. troops, which allowed Sandino to begin negotiations with the Nicaraguan government for the return to civilian life in 1933.

A year later, the then head of the National Guard Anastasio Somoza, who would become the first member of a family clan of dictators, ordered the arrest of the revolutionary leader.

On February 21, 1934, during a dinner at the Presidential Palace, generals Augusto Cesar Sandino, Francisco Estrada and Juan Umanzor were arrested, taken to El Hormiguero prison, and murdered by soldiers under orders from Somoza.

Somoza’s family would stay in power till the Sandinista revolution in 1979 that carried the name of the fallen guerrilla commander.

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/02/23/nicaraguans-celebrate-90th-anniversary-of-sandinos-death/

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This is a reminder that power corrupts. 🤨

The Frente Sandinista achieved to free Nicaragua from the bloody grip of dictator Somoza in 1978 and built up a real progressive alternative, politically, culturally, socially and economically.
Alfabetization campaigns, peasant poetry, women's rights, cooperatives of coffee growers. Ortega was the leader of a movement seen as a beacon of hope and a new way of socialism with freedom. Thousands of international volunteers went there to help.
Of course, the US bears part of the responsibility (with infamous Henry Kissinger) with their mercenaries sewing terror during a 10-year war.
Then, the Sandinistas hold free elections and the people voted for the US-backed candidate as they knew that the terror would end.

Ortega remained in the oppositon for over 15 years. Most of his comrades, especially the more progressive ones, left the party, but Ortega became remarkably creative in forging alliances to regain power. He allied with the catholic church (then the evangelicals weren't as important yet) to speak out against abortion in order to gain their support. He used his influence at the suopreme court to help a conservative president guilty of corruption.
It is important to remark that liberal capitalist democracies don't have so much to offer for a population in poverty. So, at some point, also with the help of Venezuela's petrodollars, Ortega achieved to become president again.
This time, little remained of the humanistic visions of the former revolutionary...
And here we are, crackdown after crackdown.
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Today in Labor History May 18, 1895: Augusto Sandino was born. Sandino led the original Sandinista movement for Nicaraguan independence and fought a protracted war against the U.S. occupation. The FSLN of the 1970s was named after him.

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Wir reden im Überdeutlich Livestream über Nicaragua, dass Thema unserer letzten Folge. Mit dabei ist auch unser Gast Leo! Eine super Gelegenheit also, die Folge noch einmal zusammen zu vertiefen. Schaltet ein!

Auf YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR-Sa6mFQZU

Oder Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/uebertage

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