Nicaragua Recognizes the Contribution of Youth to Its National Emancipation
March in honor of revolutionary songwriter Arlen Siu murdered by the Somoza dictatorship in 1975. Photo: X/ @DanielMiPresid1
July 16, 2024 Hour: 10:19 am
The struggle of young people was decisive in the fall of the U.S.-backed dictatorship on July 19, 1979.
On Sunday, President Daniel Ortega declared the youth as “national heritage” due to the leading and decisive role that young people have played throughout Nicaraguan history.
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“Considering the leading and decisive role that the heroic Nicaraguan youth have played through the ages, from the indigenous resistance of Diriangen, Nicarao, Adiact, forging and traveling inspiring paths, in brave and decisive struggles for national liberation, I declare our blessed homeland’s youth as national heritage of Nicaragua,” he wrote in an executive decree.
This declaration is “a salute to these times of sovereignty and luminous creation, times of uninterrupted formation of national consciousness and unbreakable determination to fight to overcome poverty.”
“The young people of all times, from our sensitivities, intelligences, and talents, work all together to advance in great songs of life and hope towards the future of love, justice, truth, homeland, peace, and prosperity, which we so deserve,” said the leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN).
“This declaration of National Heritage of our noble, patriotic, victorious youth, in the ever-beyond of our Augusto Sandino, general of free men and women, constitutes a well-deserved recognition in honor, glory, and victories to the Nicaraguan youth of all times, whose undefeated spirit continues creating this Nicaragua for all, of security, tranquility, study, work, homeland, peace, and future,” Ortega added.
Ortega issued the decree five days before the 45th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution, which overthrew the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle on July 19, 1979.
In 1980, the first FSLN government (1979-1990) established July 19 as a national holiday. These days, Nicaraguans also remember Commander Jose Benito Escobar, a young construction worker who joined the revolutionary struggle and was murdered by the National Guard on July 15, 1978.
Autor: teleSUR/ JF
Fuente: EFE - Nicaraguan Government
