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“I’m breathing,” it hurts to breathe. These are the last words of 11-year-old Alvaro Conrado, one of the first victims of the April 2018 student revolution in Nicaragua, involving hundreds of thousands of people who poured into the streets and squares of Managua and the rest of the country. As at the time of the first anniversary of the Sandinista People’s Revolution, which the writer was fortunate to attend representing (in 1981) the Italian metalworkers of the Unitary Federation Flm.

Alvarito’s sniper shot him in the throat, as evidenced by a tragic video with great grief, and he was taken in vain to a hospital in the capital where the regime had already banned any aid to the protesters. He died from internal bleeding.

In the three/four-month period of general mobilization, there were more than 350 “certified” victims (mostly young people) by human rights bodies, primarily the United Nations. Not to mention the thousands of wounded and imprisoned who were forced to go underground and then leave the country.

And sure The duel heaves on July 19 to recall the 1979 popular uprising that ended the Somoza dynasty. One of its designers was the then guerrilla leader Daniel Ortega. Exactly he who bloodily suppressed (we were there) five years ago, in his ill-fated second season as president, the uprising of the “nephews” of General de Hombres Liberes, Augusto C. Sandino. So much so that today we are talking about Orteguismo, with the term Sandinista abbreviated to the acronym of that front (FSLN) of which Ortega has always been secretary.

A few years after the electoral collapse of the February 1990 revolution, we documented Ortega’s growing power delirium at once. This marginalized the majority of the Sandinista leadership who wanted instead to consolidate that democracy which was essentially expressed by defeat at the ballot box. And so he makes an insane pact with the local oligarch. Until he re-imposed himself as the country’s electoral leader in 2007.

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From then forward It was a spread of the Daniel clan, under the supervision of Vice Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo. who declared himself a Christian, socialist and anti-imperialist. Unless immediate ratification, the Free Trade Treaty between the States of the Central American Isthmus and the United States (CAFTA) is still in effect today, to the point where Nicaragua maintains more than half of its total trade with the United States. Which, in turn, has so far “tied” themselves (eg the European Union) to impose sanctions on family members and supporters of the dictatorship.

Therefore, it has nothing to do with the fierce sixty-year-old blockade of the United States against Cuba, which, although it is starving, is resisting starvation. and where, only 90 miles from the coasts of the “Northern Giant,” it was difficult to combine national sovereignty with the exercise of that democracy which we alone experience (and which is so much manipulated today) in the rich Northwest Hemisphere. Or with Washington’s systematic boycott of the Venezuelan economy (relaxed only recently by the global oil supply crisis) with Nicolás Maduro who is orphaned by Hugo Chávez and who, despite the disastrous situation in his country, maintains a deeply ambivalent conversation with the opposition.

Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, all located in Cuenca del Caribe, the historic “backyard” of the United States with an adjoining swimming pool. But with Ortega as the oligarch keeping his foot in more shoes, effectively reducing the spontaneous “spring” 2018 rebels to the human strength of the alleged White House-orchestrated coup.
So because of that He breathed while contemplating the authoritarian drift in recent years that saw the imprisonment of the legendary leader Dora Maria Tellez (now sent abroad, free but “denationalized”, along with 222 other political prisoners from various persuasions). While it is more sad to remember the death in prison of starvation last year of Sandinista General Hugo Torres, to whom Daniel Ortega owed his daring guerrilla operation in 1974 his release from Somozy prison.

Dealing with the fact that the revolution that generated most expectations in generations (and beyond) ’68 has had a similar cost in the past. With the United States that did everything at that time (except for conquest) to confront it, fearing that precisely because of its openness and multiplicity it could pollute the entire Latin American subcontinent. While today they almost “leave it” to a small country that has become neglected in their eyes. With Ortega receiving less than 15% of the vote in Cid Gallup’s latest poll, thanks to Nicaraguans taking advantage of the system; who this time celebrated the trio on July 19 in a smaller square in the capital.

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On the ground So the (self-)isolation of Nicaragua is worrying. Suffice it to say that it is the only government in Latin America that did not sign the final summit agreement with the European Union last Tuesday in Brussels. With Cuba and Venezuela for leaving him alone in not wanting to sign a public condemnation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

But for those who still have some doubts, especially in our country, about this gloomy drift, it suffices to recall the decision of President Daniel Ortega a few days ago to extend the recent appointment of Maurizio Geli (son of the Venerable) as Ambassador of the Government of Nicaragua in Spain also to the Republic of Andorra. As if to close a “geographical-historical” circle that saw the banker Roberto Calvi, brother of the Andorran Freemason’s disquieting lodge of the Italian Nicaraguan fixer Alvaro Rubelo (whose daughter Monica was ambassador to Italy) open in Managua in 1977, under the patronage of dictator Anastasio Somoza Junior, the Nicaraguan branch of Banco Ambrosiano.

without leaving And of course, Maurizio Geli’s son, who bears the same name as his grandfather Licio, has been incredibly Nicaraguan ambassador to Uruguay since last summer.
Ah yes, dear Alvarito, you have to breathe them…