(Unofficial translation)
Gobierno de Reconciliación y Unidad Nacional
Unida Nicaragua Triunfa
Compañero
Nicolás Maduro Moros
Constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
In person
Beloved Nicholas:
11 years have gone and who else would have been able to say, who if not he who would have warned us of all that was to come, of everything that did come, of the new, even more cruel aggression, of the effort to impose indignity; of the battles, wars, struggles and victories, in this America of ours, of so much rebellion and so much determination to conquer freedom, out of the dignity that is ours.
The dignity that we are…
The freedom that belongs to us, because our lands, our natural resources, our languages, our cultures belong to us.
As the giant love that flared out to us from you belongs to us, Comandante Chávez.
That undefeated love.
That love that can do anything and overcome everything.
Comandante Chávez, you arrived with the strength and fortitude of the entire history of our battle-hardened continent, of formidable feats, of great cultures, of limitless greatness and heroism.
You arrived, Comandante Chávez and tended all the fires, purging the weaknesses, exposing and burying cowardice, following, with futuristic vision, our father Fidel and all the children of this America of ours, redeemed and redeeming, our great nation, which with you, Comandante Chávez, rediscovered Tupac Katari, Bolivar, Martí, Sandino, rediscovered in the greatness of Fidel, rediscovered among so many warriors of Light, Life and Truth, guerrillas of Life for Liberation.
Who if not you, Comandante Fidel, Comandante Chávez, Eternal Comandantes, bequeathed us more vigor and energy to confront the cruelties, the efforts at humiliation, the degrading pretensions, the hatred in the daily inhumanity of the perverse and permanent colonialist, slaveholding, neocolonialist, imperialist, genocidal, criminal, looting mentality, which has tried, unsuccessfully, to overwhelm us and make us surrender.
11 years after your journey to eternity, Comandante, there where the God of all victories has you next to Fidel, you, Comandantes, revitalize all the battles against ignominy, confronting the very same enemies; your spirit fills our battles, with more courage, more nobility, more bravery, and more assuredeness in the triumphs that belong to us, because they are ours.
To Nicolás, to the brave and beloved Bolivarian, Chavista People, to the entire great Venezuelan Family, and to all the rebels of Our America, who neither sell out, nor surrender, ever, this committed embrace from Nicaragua, Blessed and Always Free, ours too, from the heart of immortal Chávez.
We know that the challenges are great, but we know also that they will not shake us. In the cause of the Revolution, Christian, Socialist, full of Solidarity, evolutionary, together, we lay claim, demanding all the rights, all the merits, and all the glories of free peoples, for we know very well that we are free, that our soul is not the soul of lackeys, much less servants.
After 11 years, Chávez, Eternal Comandante, here we are, in the Great Nation, your Great Nation, advancing, fighting, overcoming, all of us together, because it is united that Our Caribbean America is forging the future.
Chávez is the song of everyone... Chávez, Fidel; Fidel and Chávez are the flying banners of the new world, the better world, that we are building!
So much hope, so much certainty, so much obligation to overcome, to live overcoming,
With your giant love, Chávez, we continue onward, Always Further On!
With all the affection of Nicaragua’s families, with all the love of the world, to you, Chávez, to Nicolás, to your People, we are go onward and continue to overcome! Let us not hesitate, let us continue onward and continue always to overcome!
Here we are, then, 11 years after the departure, which is not a departure, but a journey, for you are here, Comandante Chávez, as a giant spirit; here you are, Comandante Fidel; here are all the Heroes.
Here is Sandino; here is Carlos; here is General Benjamín Zeledón; here is Andrés. Here are the Heroes of our Original Peoples... Here is Tomás... Here we all are!
Here are the hundreds of thousands, millions of heroic Nicaraguans, who have given their lives for freedom, for dignity, for sovereignty, and who continue to defend all our victories.
