Greetings by Doctor Gustavo Porras
President of the National Assembly
Member of the Sandinista Council
and the National Sandinista Assembly
Thank you Comrade Monica,
Good morning to all the Brothers and Sisters who are participating in this Extended Meeting of the Working Group of the Sao Paulo Forum. It is a pleasure for me to be with all of you and we wish you success. We move forward, from this our Nicaragua Blessed and Always Free. There are other Comrades who are also connected for Nicaragua, who also accompany me. There is Comrade Darling Alonso and our Heroine Amada Pineda, who are accompanying me, and other Sisters and Brothers who are connected with us from different points, we will present the Report of our Country.
REPORT BY OUR COUNTRY
NICARAGUA, BLESSED AND ALWAYS FREE
REPORT OF THE SANDINISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT
Sao Paulo Forum Working Group
Virtual Meeting
1 and 2 April, 2022
The Sandinista National Liberation Front, our Comandante Daniel, Secretary General, and President of Nicaragua and Comrade Rosario, Vice President, extend greeting to all the Representatives of Peoples and Parties present by virtual connection, in this important and valuable Extended Meeting of the Working Group of the Sao Paulo Forum, in this First Quarter of 2022.
We salute and embrace you right now, in these moments of great challenges for the Human Family, and of great efforts to promote Peace and Security in all points of the Planet; where Intelligence, Sensitivity and all the Senses are required to continue working for the solutions that are demanded, taking into account all the perspectives, sensitivities, and realities that concern everyone.
The Sandinista National Liberation Front, on 7th November, 2021, concluded an Electoral Process that allowed for the ratification of Comandante-President Daniel Ortega, Vice President, Comrade Rosario Murillo and 150 Congressmen and women, among Permanent and Alternates, by the Sovereign Will of our People, in Free, Democratic, Dignified and satisfactory Elections for the Nicaraguan Majorities, who exercise our Right to Vote in full Freedom.
In Nicaragua, with the Sandinista National Liberation Front, the Constitution and Legal Framework requires Gender Equity at all Levels and Elected Positions of Government, State, Social and Popular Responsibility.
The Sandinista National Liberation Front is organized into Electoral Victory Units (UVES) at the National, Municipal, District, Town and Community levels, as well as into UVES of Youth and their Movements, and Social, Labor, Community, Institutional, Indigenous and Afro-descendants Movements.
Convening and participation is weekly, for the Themes of the Party's Agenda, Youth and Movements, as well as for Education, Training and Analysis or to Study Special Topics, weekly or as necessary.
The Sandinista National Liberation Front has more than 2 million militants and is present in all the Territories of our Free Motherland.
From the Government of the FSLN, we promote and strengthen the Plans for Human Security, Development with Social Justice, and of dedicated Struggle against Poverty, which is the main adversary of Human Dignity.
We have been complying with our Historical Program that has evolved over time and based on realities, as new situations have emerged (and are) arising, which have demanded, and continue to demand, new answers.
These Programs highlight, first of all, all aspects of Human Security: Sovereign, Citizen Security; Security against Disasters and Calamities; Social Security, Legal, Labor, Environmental, Food... Human Security that prioritizes Health and Education (Our Model having been recognized with International Awards) from the Direct Presence, between
Families and Communities. This model has shown its effectiveness in confronting the pandemic, complementing efforts with all Modalities of Education (Initial, Face-to-face, Virtual, Distance, Primary, Secondary, Technical, Technological, University in the Rural and Urban Areas), with more than 320 Careers being offered to Families and Young Farmers, for the first time in History, in their own municipalities.
Homes, Hospitals, Maternity Homes, Health Centers, Specialized Centers, Roads, Streets, Highways, Bridges, Public Spaces, for commerce and recreation, are an essential part of the Development and Human Security Plan that we implement, nationally and locally, among so many challenges imposed by the Empires and their Creole servants.
Recognizing all aspects of Labor Security, the programs we promote contribute to the development of Employment, from the Talent, Capacity, Industriousness and Prominence of Entrepreneurs, Producers, Artisans, in ascending Models of Cooperative, Social, Creative, Associative, Family, Community Economy, each one in their respective spaces and according to their vocation, encouraging and strengthening the Paths of Peace.
Potable Water, Sanitation; Electrical Power, that already covers almost the entire country; supplementing with alternative sources; Tele-communications; Attention to Climate Change, and development of Good Practices, essential to protect and conserve Life in all its forms, have been, and are the Essence and Part of our Plans and Programs and our relentless fight against Poverty.
All the Programs that are developed in all areas, to fight against Poverty, have allowed us to transcend the perverse and failed attempted coup, that in April 2018, with cruelty, terrorism, violence, torture, kidnappings, bloodied this country of ours, all promoted, financed and directed by the incessant and now permanent intention of domination of the Imperialist Government of the United States, with of Creole, pro-Yankee and anti-People servitude.
The Native Communities of our Autonomous Regions of the Northern and Southern Caribbean, the Afro-descendants, Miskito, Mayagna, Rama Cay and Garífuna populations, are owners of their Territories and govern themselves with Autonomy, always counting with the recognition of their Languages, Cultures, Ways of Life, and Cosmovisions, in the development of their daily Existence.
This Year, 2022 we are going to Municipal Elections in the 153 Municipalities of the Country. With each process of Protagonism and freedom to choose, we strengthen the Protagonistic Democracy that has characterized our Revolutionary Process.
Each Process and each Electoral Event, organized in accordance with the standards and the Rights that, thanks to the Revolution, were recovered 43 years ago in our Nicaragua, contributes to the historical solidity and the vision of a Sovereign Future of Dignity, Justice and Wellbeing, in this Revolutionary Nicaragua, that from the Sandinista National Liberation Front, we observe, empower and protect with infinite Patriotic Love and with a permanent sense of Honor and National Dignity inherited by our General of Free Men and Women and all our National Heroes.
In consigning our Achievements we also state our concern about the growing interference, interventionism, blockades and wars against Countries and Peoples that live Sovereign Processes, generating with these aggressions, cowardly called “Sanctions”, more Poverty and attempts to humiliate Brave Peoples.
That is why we propose more Encounters, more Coincidence, more Solidarity, more Fraternity, more Unity among all the Parties and Peoples of this Continent and beyond.
If another Better World is possible, we must unite each from their own space, as well as in common spaces, so that the World, that we can already see and live in, can be of the Peoples and for the Peoples. As it should be.
A Free Motherland, Nation and Freedom!
The Struggle is the Highest of All Songs!
All of Us Together, Victorious... We are Victorious!