Nicaragua Celebrates
Sandinista Victory
Tens of thousands of
Nicaraguans are at Plaza
de la Fe in Managua
Thursday, to celebrate a
new anniversary of the
Sandinista Revolution,
which overthrew dictator
Anastasio Somoza on July
19, 1979.
The anniversary's
peculiarity this year is
that the Sandinista
National Liberation
Front (FSLN) is in power
for the first time in 16
years, thus a massive
attendance was expected
at the, which will be
presided over by
President Daniel Ortega.
Esteli Mayor Pedro
Calderon said yesterday
that 12,000 people from
that city alone were
going the 93 miles north
to Managua.
Regardless of political
affiliation, the FSLN
return to power on
January 10 has generated
great expectations among
Nicaraguans.
Some of the people's
hopes are beginning to
become reality already
this July 19, but
obviously all
expectations are
impossible to meet in
just six months,
asserted Commander Tomas
Borge in a statement. |
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