Interview: revolutionary forces in Nicaragua
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- Created: Friday, 07 July 2023 16:13
- Written by FRFI
US imperialism has a long and bloody history of military intervention, occupation, coups and aggression in Nicaragua. Throughout the 20th century it imposed dictators to facilitate its looting and plunder. In the 1980s the US armed and funded violent far-right groups to destroy the revolutionary Sandinista forces and since the Sandinista Front returned to Presidency in 2007, the US has spent millions of dollars trying to overthrow the Nicaraguan government, including a campaign of terror in 2018 and attempts to derail subsequent elections. Since 2019 Nicaragua is under sanction by the US, Canada and the EU. Social organisations and revolutionaries in Nicaragua continue to organise against imperialism, in defence of their sovereignty and for socialism. FRFI met with Marlen Sanchez, Faustino Torrez and Erika Takeo, representing the international department of the Association of Rural Workers (ATC) Nicaragua, to learn more about this process.
