#sandinistas

[leftistfeminista]

I see differences, for example, when I look at women. Our Nicaraguan society is machista, that's clear. A Nicaraguan woman—like a Nicaraguan man—is lively and intelligent and has the ability to give and take. But historically, society has been much harder on us; we’ve had less opportunity. It's a centuries-long history, a millennium of exploitation, during which we've carried an image of ourselves that isn't real. But since the men in our society, for so many reasons, have been irresponsible in paternity, women have had responsibility for their children's lives. This means that the real Nicaraguan woman isn’t the one who wants to cry in the face of her tragedy, the apathetic woman. That was clear in the struggle against the dictator. I said to Margaret Randall when she was writing about us, “Don't write about those whom we've made famous. Write about the women who hid the contact bombs in their skirts, and fooled the guards with their cunning.” The majority of Nicaraguan women participated like this, and that’s how we made the revolution, with women. There’s machismo on the FSLN, of course. It would be illogical for there not to be. But in the Front women are always given the opportunity to participate. Clearly machismo goes beyond that opportunity. It’s a problem of education, and we’ve eradicated it neither in the years of struggle nor in the years of our revolution. We women have to struggle against it as well as the men. Because at times we’re more machista than they are and we educate our daughters differently from the way we educate our sons. It’s a very complicated problem. We’re on the road: men still haven't overcome the fear that their woman will have their own lives, and they're still not inclined to accept what I call a "woman individual," who has responsibilities outside the home. On the other hand, women are no longer inclined to stay inside the four walls of their homes. That has meant that since the revolution there have been a lot of divorces, a lot of problems between couples. Our machismo is very deeply rooted. But I don't believe that we have a sexist society. And that's what there is in the United States: a sexist society, one that discriminates on the basis of sex. It has been very hard for me to adapt myself to the task of being a diplomatic representative in the United States. One thing I've found very difficult is protocol. I once said to Comandante Ortega that my work wouldn't be so difficult if I could wear blue jeans at the United Nations. But I most definitely cannot! It seems such a silly thing, right? But having to dress every day in “coat and tie” is hard on me. Every time I get to Nicaragua, I put on my jeans and sit out in my patio. Diplomacy would be different if we could dress as we please, wouldn't it?

https://www.envio.org.ni/articulo/3134

#nicaraguan revolution #sandinistas

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

CIA, Moonies Cooperate in Sandinista War

▲ Contras in Nicaragua

Washington Post page E-15 (and Indiana Gazette)

August 16, 1984 by Jack Anderson

In the Central American hinterlands, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish CIA operatives from the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s disciples. They appear to be working in harness against the communist-tainted Sandinista regime in Nicaragua.

This troubles at least one Pentagon analyst, now stationed in Korea, who has warned the White House that the CIA-Moonie connection could cause possible political damage to President Reagan’s re-election campaign.

The analyst’s unofficial memo, “Potential Problems,” has been slipped to my associate Donald Goldberg.

“Current Moonie involvement with government officials, contractors and grantees [in Central America] could create a major scandal,” the memo warns. “If their activities and role become public knowledge, it will unite both the left and the right in attacking the administration.”

The memo continues: “If efforts are not taken to stop their growing influence and weed out current Moonie involvement in government, the president stands a good chance of being portrayed in the media as a poor, naive incompetent who is strong on ideology and weak on common sense. …

“The likelihood of a reporter or a Democratic staff member piecing the total picture together is too great to be neglected. Any thought that this festering problem will go away if ignored is foolish.”

The “total picture” of Moon’s activities in Latin America is not clear. But there is no doubt that the Korean messiah – now in prison for income tax evasion [and document forgery and perjury] – has established a solid presence in the region, with ties to right-wing groups and U.S.-supported guerrillas.

My associate John Lee Anderson reports from Central America that CAUSA international, Moon’s political front, has representatives working in programs that help the CIA in its “contra” war against the Sandinista government.

CAUSA maintains a publicity office in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, but its principal activities are in the field. CAUSA provides cash and other aid to Honduran-based Nicaraguan contras and Honduran right-wing political groups. Many anti-Sandinista guerrillas wear red CAUSA T-shirts with a map of the world on them.

But CAUSA and its affiliate, the Refugee Relief Freedom Foundation, provide more than T-shirts to rebel groups. They also funnel supplies to refugee families in and near contra camps and pay for trips by rebel leaders to the United States.

One contra leader, Fernando “El Negro” Chamorro, told my associate that as early as 1981, CAUSA representatives sent him on an all-expenses paid trip to the United States to try to unify the Nicaraguan exile groups.

The airlift of supplies to the rebels by Moon’s Unification Church has escalated since congress cut off CIA funding for the contras. The administration has been attempting to “privatize” its war against the Sandinistas and is apparently willing to work with Moon’s people.

Footnote: A Unification Church official denied that the church is engaged in any but religious activities in Central America.

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“The UC is truly anti-Christian” and produces “a species of material and spiritual slavery.” Catholic Bishops in Honduras

Jorge Guldenzoph, deeply involved with CAUSA and Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church, given 10 years in jail for torturing

The Unification Church and the KCIA – ‘Privatizing’ covert action: the case of the UC

Sun Myung Moon organization activities in Central & South America

Introduction

‘Illegal Aliens Joining Moonies’ – The Pittsburg Press

Moon’s ‘Cause’ Takes Aim At Communism in the Americas – Washington Post

Moon in Latin America: Building the Bases of a World Organisation – Guardian

Guatemala

Nicaragua

Honduras

Costa Rica

Bolivia

Uruguay

Paraguay

Brazil

#unification church #sun myung moon #moonies #hak ja han #CIA #CAUSA #Sandinistas #President Reagan #Nicaragua

[whatisonthemoon]

Moonies offered to pay leaders of the Contras

▲ Pictured: Contras in Nicaragua

According to a reliable journalistic source just returned from Central America, one of the Nicaraguan Contra leaders, Fernando "El Negro" Chamorro of the UDN-FARN, was approached more than two years ago by Moonies to attend meetings (all expenses paid) in San Francisco, New York, and perhaps elsewhere, aimed at unifying the various anti-Sandinista groups. Chamorro said he went to the meetings but declined to follow Moon's lead, for fear of Moon domination. Asked if he had taken any Moon money, he said he hadn't but might if there were no strings attached.

Pak in the Saddle Again by Fred Clarkson (Covert Action, No. 20,  Winter 1984)

#nicaragua #contras #sandinistas #anti-communism #unification church #fernando chamorro #anti-sandinista #central america #latin america #moonies #political #right-wing politics #violence

[acervorevolucionario]

Soldado do Exército Popular Sandinista.

Nicarágua, 1987 /// Foto por Scott Wallace

#Sadinistas #Exército Popular Sandinista #1987 #Nicaragua #Nicarágua #Scott Wallace

[lisamarie-vee]

#the clash #sandinista! #roadrunner #rock and roll hall of fame

[elbiotipo]

I like women with guns

Yeah I see the appeal

#soviet snipers sandinista guerrilleras and vietcong guerrilleras in that order

[theclasharchives]

happy birthday to the triple album sandinista! by the clash. released on this day (dec 12th) in 1980!

#the clash #punk #uk punk #70s punk #classic punk #joe strummer #paul simonon #mick jones #topper headon #new wave #70s #80s #punk aesthetic #rock music #1980 #sandinista

[drapeau-rouge]

“El hombre que es capaz de soñar y transformar sus sueños en realidad es un revolucionario

El hombre que es capaz de amar y de hacer del amor un instrumento de cambio, es también un revolucionario.

Un revolucionario es por lo tanto un poeta, un amante, un soñador.

Porque no se puede ser revolucionario sin lágrimas en los ojos y sin dulzura en las manos”. The man who is capable of dreaming and transform your dreams into reality is a revolutionary The man who is capable of loving and to make love an instrument of change is also a revolutionary. A revolutionary is therefore a poet, a lover, a dreamer. Because you can't be revolutionary without tears in the eyes and without sweetness in the hands

Tomás Borge Martínez, 1981 

#Sandinista #FSLN #Nicaragua

[pattern-recognition]

Entre todos los fusiles Este Garand es la ley El cañón de su calibre tiene .30-06 Si usted quiere desarmarlo Siga al pelo esta instrucción Levante bien las dos cejas Pare las orejas y oiga esta canción!

Don't cry, comrade; remember that FSLN album with catchy songs about field stripping rifles and building bombs

#Carlos Mejía Godoy #Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional #El Garand #Guitarra Armada

[mrbopst]

Happy 43rd birthday to favorite Clash/triple album of all time. This is the copy I bought in 1980 the day it came out.

#The Clash #Sandinista #Vinyl #LP #Genius

[whatisonthemoon]

Dallas Hosts Anti-Communist League (1985)

By Charles R. Babcock The Washington Post September 17, 1985

There were "freedom fighters" representing several armed insurgencies, wealthy Texans, representatives of Soldier of Fortune magazine and the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, and ultra-right politicians from Guatemala and Paraguay -- all rubbing shoulders in a new luxury hotel in north Dallas.

The occasion was last week's 18th annual conference of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL), which was founded by the governments of Taiwan and South Korea and has tried in recent years to rid itself of members who espoused anti-Semitic and fascist views.

The four-day conference ended with an "International Freedom Fighters Dinner" featuring greetings from President Reagan, "Freedom Fighter of the Year" medals for insurgents from Nicaragua and Afghanistan, a special citation for a Dallas woman who gave $65,000 toward a helicopter for the Nicaraguan contras, and the unveiling of a bust of Reagan made by a Cambodian who dreamed that "he would meet an old white man [Reagan] who would help" his country's resistance movement.

“I commend you all for your part in this noble cause," the Reagan letter read. "Our combined efforts are moving the tide of history toward world freedom." Representatives of eight anti-Marxist resistance movements attended, but most of the attention was focused on the Nicaraguans, led by political leader Adolfo Calero and military commander Enrique Bermudez. Also in the spotlight was the WACL chairman, retired Army major general John Singlaub, cashiered by President Jimmy Carter for criticizing the proposed withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Korea in the late 1970s. During the past year, Singlaub has been active in raising private funds to help the Nicaraguan opposition to the leftist Sandinista government. Ellen Garwood, who helped pay for the helicopter, said: "God in his mysterious way has put Gen. Singlaub in communism's way, and the general is saying, 'They shall not pass.'“

Participants at the conference could buy WACL "Freedom Fighter" T-shirts and FDN (Nicaraguan Democratic Force) shoulder patches, and pick up literature describing a planned Captive Nations Park in San Antonio, which is to fly flags at half staff and include a replica of the Statue of Liberty gagged, with a tear in her eye and her torch at her feet.

Bert Hurlbut, a key WACL financial supporter, said that his minister from Austin was on hand broadcasting the proceedings over "Straight Talk Radio." And participants were abuzz at the arrival of two other media personalities: Mike Wallace of CBS' "60 Minutes," and producer George Crile, both of Westmoreland libel trial fame.

The gathering featured moments of genuine emotion and impassioned rhetoric. A woman representing resistance forces in Mozambique said she was upset that Reagan is scheduled to meet and "shake the bloody hand" of Marxist Mozambican leader Samora Machel. An Afghan fighter, who had lost a hand to a Soviet mine, and the Nicaraguan, who had lost a leg and was awarded the medal at the dinner, told their stories many times.

Dr. Haing S. Ngor, who played the Cambodian reporter in the movie "The Killing Fields," said that the genocide of his people by the communists was too grisly to be portrayed on film "because no one could stand to watch it."

Assembled resistance leaders had many opportunities to make public relations points. Calero, for instance, said several times that his award winner, Hubert R. Rodriguez, known as Sierra Three, lost a leg only after a flesh wound became infected because the FDN had no medical-evacuation helicopters.

Congress has approved $27 million in humanitarian aid for the contras, but none is to be used for helicopters. So Singlaub said that he has agreed to try raising new private aid for trucks and helicopters for the Nicaraguan. There were undercurrents of controversy, as well, at the meeting. The representative of Angolan resistance leader Jonas Savimbi walked out, one participant said, because of the presence of Holden Roberto, head of a now-inactive Angolan opposition group.

Tom Posey, of Civilian Military Assistance, who said he was at the convention as an "observer," said that too many groups were trying to take credit for aiding the contras."We don't have to preach to the choir," he said of his Alabama group that has worked in jungle hospitals in Central America. "We're the infantry troops. We're the doers."

Dr. Woo Jae Seung, the WACL secretary general from South Korea, and Singlaub said they did not know that Mario Sandoval Alarcon of Guatemala had been invited to the conference. Sandoval is a presidential candidate of the National Liberation Movement, which has described itself as the "party of organized violence.”

The South American chapter in which Sandoval was active was expelled a few years ago because its members made anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi statements. Singlaub said he assumed the new chapter had cleared Sandoval to attend.

As the delegates wrapped up their work with a joint communique supporting anti-Marxist insurgencies worldwide, Singlaub said he hoped that individual chapters would work to raise money to help the insurgents. But he said he had not reviewed any regional "action plans."

Several representatives of the resistance groups said they appreciated the moral support, but need money to buy guns. As Mario Calero, an FDN official, told a French television team: "We need money without any strings attached, without any 'humanitarian' baloney.

#woo jae-sung #jae-sung woo #wacl #anti-semitism #fascism #racism #unification church #moonies #singlaub #john singlaub #ronald reagan #conservative politics #right-wing politics #counterinsurgency #world anti-communist league #nicaragua #sandinistas #tom posey #contras #imperialism

[bandiera--rossa]

In March 1978, Nora Astorga (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional -  FSLN) used her charm to persuade General Reynaldo Perez Vega, known as “El Perro” or “the Dog” and deputy commander of the Nicaraguan National Guard and close adviser to President Anastasio Somoza, to visit her. She told reporters, later, that while he undressed him, she hugged him in a way that allowed five Sandinista guerillas to leap out of his closets and subdue him. The general was later found wrapped in a Sandinista flag with his throat slit.

Nora has never denied her role in Vega’s death. Years later she told a Washington Post reporter: "I never felt guilty. The plan was to kidnap him, but he fought back and had to be killed. It was something you had to do for revolutionary justice. He killed so many people. He was a monster. "

#nora astorga #FSLN #Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional #nicaragua #1970s #sandinismo #guerriglia

[lisamarie-vee]

#the clash #sandinista! #1980s #rock and roll hall of fame

[prontaentrega]

if you already read open veins of latin america and want more of galeanos political texts i recommend ser como ellos y otros ensayos (to be like them and other essays) and uselo y tirelo

#no encuentro el nombre del ensayo ese que dice. otros rompieron los platos y nicaragua los paga #en relacion a la respuesta del primer mundo a la revolucion sandinista #chizitxt