Nicaragua Situation Explosive, Warns Daniel Ortega

[struggle4progress]

Havana, May 2 (Prensa Latina) The current situation in Nicaragua is even more explosive than in Ecuador, where people´s pressure ousted President Lucio Gutierrez last month, warned the secretary general of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega.

The Sandinista leader attended a massive May Day gathering here, and told Prensa Latina his organization has played an essential role in helping avoid a chaotic situation in the Central American country.

"We want this resistance against neoliberal policies implemented by Enrique Bolaños´ government to be pursued in a way that will lead us to victory in the elections scheduled for November, 2006, and re-take power with the greatest legitimacy, he said. <snip>

After 10 days of strikes, marches and clashes with anti-riot forces, the government was forced to approve subsidies to transportation workers who were affected by a rise in the price of gasoline, he stressed.

http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BBC26E3D5-9AF5-4C01-8623-9FDE8B57A06D%7D&language=EN

[salib]

1. Wow, it is good to hear from Ortega

Nicaragua was such an amazing place for a few years there in the 80's. Of course, Reagan, Bush I, Rumsfeld, et. al., had to try anything to destroy it. ANYTHING. The root of some of the most evil things done by the Repugs is in their efforts to remove Ortega.

[Mika]

13. In Cuba on Sunday (May Day) Mr Ortega said..

.. that Americans are the greatest threat to humanity. (Note that he did not say America nor Bush, he said Americans.)


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www.stopbolton.org

[bemildred]

2. Dust and Diessel

Battered buses jammed up to the roof
Dust and diesel the prevailing themes
Farmer sleeping on the truck in front
Feet trailing over like he's trolling for dreams
Smiling girl directing traffic flow
.45 strapped over cotton print dress
Marimba-brown and graceful limbs
Give me a moment of loneliness

Dust and diesel
Rise like incense from the road
Smoke of offering
For the revolution morning

http://cockburnproject.net/songs&music/dad.html

[CottonBear]

5. For the revolution morning...

"I wish I had a rocket launcher
because some son of a bitch would die."

I love Bruce Cockburn. I saw him perform in a tiny club in Atlanta in the late 1980s. That album should be required listening for all Duers.

Brilliant songwriter, singer and performer.

[bemildred]

8. Bruce kicks ass.

There is a lot of work to choose from too,
But that CD (Stealing Fire) is a good one.

[AP]

14. IMF dirty MF/ takes away everything it can get

Padded with power here they come
international loan sharks backed by the guns
of market hungry military profiteers
whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
with the blood of the poor

...

North south east west
kill the best and buy the rest
it's just spend a buck to make a buck
you don't really give a flying fuck
about the people in misery

IMF dirty MF
takes away everything it can get
always making certain that there's one thing left
keep them on the hook with insupportable debt

..

See the loaded eyes of the children too
trying to make the best of it the way kids do
one day you're going to rise from your habitual feast
to find yourself staring down the throat of the beast
they call the revolution

...

http://www.ocap.ca/songs/democrac.html

[mike_c]

7. made my night....

Thanks for posting that.

[bemildred]

9. Anytime.

It's nice the think the story in Nicaragua is not done yet.

[Minstrel Boy]

11. "In the flash of this moment, you're the best of what we are...

Don't let them stop you now, Nicaragua."

From the same album, Stealing Fire (Can't believe that album's 21 years old!):


Breakfast woodsmoke on the breeze --
On the cliff the U.S. Embassy
Frowns out over Managua like Dracula's tower.
The kid who guards Fonseca's tomb
Cradles a beat-up submachine gun --
At age fifteen he's a veteran of four years of war
Proud to pay his dues
He knows who turns the screws
Baby face and old man's eyes

Blue lagoon and flowering trees --
Bullet-packed masaya streets
Full of the ghosts of the heroes of Monimbo
Women of the town laundry
Work and gossip and laugh at me --
They don't believe I'll ever send them the pictures I took.
For every scar on a wall
There's a hole in someone's heart
Where a loved one's memory lives


In the flash of this moment
You're the best of what we are --
Don't let them stop you now
Nicaragua


Sandino in his tom mix hat
Gazes from billboards and coins
"Sandino vive en la lucha por la paz"
Sandino of the shining dream
Who stood up to the U.S. marines --
Now Washington panics at U2 shots of "Cuban-style" latrines


In the flash of this moment
You're the best of what we are --
Don't let them stop you now
Nicaragua

[davidinalameda]

3. at least Bush won't invade if the Sandanistas regain power

there's no oil

[struggle4progress]

4. I dunno. W has him a real short attention span, and he's always gittin ..

.. itchy ta do somethin new, once novelty has wore off.

Afghanistan's gittin borin? Go fer Iraq. Iraq ain't too shiny no more? Gotta go ta Haiti.

Might could be only thing that'd hold him back is enuf folk real pissed off ...

[burrowowl]

6. Is there a Negroponte Jr.

to take care of this since Sr. is busy doing the same evil elsewhere.
Looks like Bu$hCo will soon have to take over the whole OAS including Canada. Teach them other Americans a lesson.
:sarcasm:

[regnaD kciN]

12. Big "if" there...

So far, there have been two elections since the Sandanistas lost power. In each case, it was suggested that the race was "neck and neck." In each case, the final totals showed the right-winger winning easily.

I'd guess Diebold is conducting the election, except that, after 14 years of pro-U.S., "free market" rule, there's probably not enough electricity to run the machines. So they'll most likely just cheat the old-fashioned way yet again.

:-(

[Mordrackian]

15. The Sandanista's have lost every election..

since free elections began. I imagine the Nicaraguan people have had enough of both the Right-Wing Thugs and Sandanista's who killed each other and them in the 70's and 80's. Ortega did a great thing in overthrowing Somoza but like Lech Walesa, governing in the aftermath was not his strong point.

[catastrophicsuccess]

16. 1984 Elections were fair and the Sandinistas won n/t

[Imperialism Inc.]

18. But, but...

President Reagan said it was a Soviet Style sham.
You don't mean he lied because he just didn't like them do you? A Republican would NEVER do that!

/end sarcasm

[hector459]

10. Thanks to the Bush regime the entire world is destablized to the point of

revolution in at least 60% of the world.

[LoneDriver]

17. And this is a bad thing?

It's time for the people of the world to show Americans the way and crush these reactionary sob's.