Nicaragua from within
In Nicaragua, he 16 February dictatorship Ortega and Murillo issued a statement which said it had met with "A representative group of Nicaraguan private sector entrepreneurs to address issues of common good of the country."
They did so in the presence of Cardinal and Apostolic Nuncio of the Pope. The statement also says that "has confirmed the need for an understanding to start negotiations, through an inclusive meeting, serious and frank. "The reaction of all popular sectors was immediate. A severe rejection on the meeting behind Sovereign. In this logic the powers, traditional, again ramming against the people. And imminente become a new dialogue with the murderous capitalist dictatorship. Under pressure from the business sector and opportunistic intermediation of the Church and the Vatican. A tremendous contradiction. This "negotiation" is a trap from dictatorship to gain time, buy time at a time of broad contradictions and weakness.
A dialogue with criminals Carmen is contradictory. Ortega and Murillo (the ORM) they find each other, at this time, corralled, debilitated. First, because it does 10 months, the people tired decided to mobilize massively, all government repression, physics, through economic adjustments promoted by the IMF, by the "consensus government with private enterprise", and limitations on our inalienable freedoms.
Jaded decided to mobilize the population, And so we come to May with 85% the country stopped. And all that pressure was placed across the population autoconvocó and organized around seedlings, marches, demonstrations, tranques, barricades, and trenches within universities, neighborhoods, and fields. As in the case of the indigenous neighborhood of Monimbó, the university town of León, the eastern neighborhoods of Managua, the students of the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, the peasantry in the canal route, just to mention some sectors / territories, they have given everything they have available to face the cruel dictatorship, their bodies.
In short, the country was not stopped by any of the big business, nor by Michael Healy and tractors after claimed that "if we see progress [in the National Dialogue] next week, producers will use our tractors and farm machinery to stop this country and teach him, [Ortega] which it is only, cornered ", He said in an interview program This Week. In the interview he also spoke stop climbing the corporate sector, referring to a national strike. Healy, He is president of the Union of Agricultural Producers of Nicaragua (UPANIC), one of the 5 business representatives members of the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy (ACJD), dialogante counterpart grouping and misrule in the National Dialogue that was established in May 2018, with the approval of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua, who also served as a witness and mediator. In current dialogue, He is deputy. The interview took place mentioned 30 of May, that day in response to the call of the Madres de Abril, -organization of relatives of those killed in ORMU-, million Nicaraguans were mobilized to demand justice for victims. Misrule in Managua responded with sniper bullets, Impacted against young, on their heads, in his chest, all in front of the "mother of all marches", They were killed by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. The response of the dictatorship was similar in the rest of the country.
Today, dictatorship also trapped, that the business sector and understood that ORMU does not intend to budge, and your goal is to survive until 2021. Which means losses in their gigantic profits. In this logic, contradicts a "national dialogue" to achieve all the freedoms we demand where the domes of the business sector, co-actor in the consolidation of the dictatorship, impose its economic interests above the long-awaited popular freedoms.
The other actor who is putting in check the dictatorship is the international community. The Organization of American States (OAS) threatens to apply the art. 20 Democratic Charter. The European Union (EU) warns of "strong" sanctions, after the contempt of misrule agreements for the visit of the delegation of MEPs, to attack policies kidnapped, held in the prison system "La Esperanza". In this logic to the dictatorship, dialogue is a political process with the goal of oxygenate in terminally and, ensure that their power over the state remains, regardless of the results that accrue any transition process that is imposed. The transition is heard most is the early elections to elect a new government. Transition that is being pushed by the ACJD, Business sector, Organization of American States (OAS) and the European Union (EU), and the United States. And this is the transition that best suits the regime, as I mentioned before. a contradiction.
On previous assurances
Most popular organizations emerged from the April Insurrection reached consensus, minimum conditions for resuming any negotiations. The first is release of all political prisoners. Today total more than the 767 political prisoners, according to the preliminary list 15 January 2019, prepared by the Committee of Relatives Pro Release of Political Prisoners (CFPLPPP). Cease all kinds of repression, persecution and harassment, government forces and the National Police and the National Army should be quartered, disarm and disband parastatal groups related to dictatorship. They should establish security guarantees for the return of thousands of exiled people.
Restore unrestricted freedom of press, association and mobilization. Delivery of stolen media and defenders Nicaraguan human rights organizations goods necessary. Allow international human rights organizations to return home to continue the investigation into human rights violations, the Nicaraguan population since April uprising began denounced and before. At this point the base organizations agree. Human rights should not be, under no circumstance, a negotiating point.
If all is not met and each of these conditions, accept a dialogue with the murderous dictatorship and tormentor, It is a betrayal of all the Nicaraguan population. It is a betrayal of political prisoners why we claim to be firm and not trading on Blood. It is a betrayal because we are being used by businesses to protect their particular interests. It is a betrayal because it is imperative and paramount trial and punishment of criminals against humanity. They will not meet these conditions if the dictatorship remains. They will not give us what we demand. We need to take.
Ortega national chain, he 21 February 2019, It has confirmed what we already big business exposed: trading resumes, which began on Wednesday 27 February, with a small group, a closed door, and he threw a line on which negotiations could turn: economic reforms. In response almost immediately the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy behind the population, and the National Unity itself, where converge in addition to the ACJD, Articulation of Social Movements AMS, and a series of popular expressions emerged amid the insurrection, and organizational existing before 18 of April, including political parties traditional-, He issued a statement announcing their 6 dialogantes, all men, three of them entrepreneurs: Jose Adan Aguerri the Superior Council of Private Enterprise COSEP, Juan Sebastián Chamorro, the Nicaraguan Foundation for Economic and Social Development FUNIDES, Mario Arana of the American Chamber of Commerce of Nicaragua (AmCham), academia Carlos Türnnerman, José Pallais, right political party Broad Front for Democracy, and Max Jerez, a small student university student group without foundation organized, grouping with serious accusations of being aligned to the interests of capital. The capitalism, patriarchy, reformism at a table "negotiations" with the dictatorship. a contradiction.
Democratic transition: New government or Free and Sovereign Constituent Assembly
We must reflect on who has the legitimacy to discuss the immediate future and long-term country and this does not go through a table of "negotiation" with the dictatorship of ORMU and Grand Capital, a view of the Church and the Vatican. The theme of justice, which it happens to be imperative to start the transition, We delimits key players: The relatives of those killed by the dictatorship -organizadas in April Mother Association- and the Committee of Relatives of Prisoners and Pro Release Political Prisoners have expressed their mettle to be themselves interlocutors to ensure the application of justice. But this can not happen with Daniel and Rosario sitting at the table. These families do not deserve to see the face of the murderers and torturers of his daughters, children, husbands, aunts, brothers, grandchildren. These families deserve to find justice, ensuring non-repetition, and a deep process of full reparation together with other sectors attacked by the dictatorship and the regime, as are the expressions of / with student basis, territorial, the peasant movement, of indigenous peoples, indigenous, African descent, and Creoles; State officials, as the medical sector, and teaching beset by misgovernment, and tens of thousands of Nicaraguan people exiled by the regime's crimes. Each of these sectors, the sectors that put the body, They gave everything they had, with all its forces to face dictatorship.
And it's why any future negotiations, legitimate and popular, the primary point is justice for all victims of the dictatorship. Our commitment to justice, non-repetition and full compensation must be irrevocable, betting on memory processes rebuild and establish the truth of crimes against humanity, against the poor population, repeated violations of university autonomy, of those who suffered the entire working population. The siege and persecution of anti-peasant movement canal, of indigenous peoples, African descent, of the groups of women who fought in the forefront of all rights violated for decades they must be addressed. It is our historical duty to break all the cycles of violence that has caused so much suffering in Nicaragua. And flatly refused amnesty, impunity, and immunity to intellectual actors and materials crimes against humanity. Ortega and Murillo are not subject to amnesty.
The issue of democratic transition, is the common point in all sectors, with significant differences regarding the results that can provide for the Nicaraguan population. The business sector, the church and the international community, including the government of the United States, bet heavily on early elections to choose a new government that administers the State. The contradictions of these elections is that they become the "smooth exit" for the regime. Where will maintain a significant share of power between the state and its administrative institutions, legislative, public force, media, and party structures within the territory, for social control, The principal thugs from pig conterreranexs. As Ortega said in the 90, "Government from below".
For the reconstruction of the state, you must first get rid of the state, its institutions, and the social contract condensed in the Constitution 1987 and amendments. We should make us all the guarantees for all the freedoms we need and want. refound. The Constituent People's Assembly, Free and Sovereign, It becomes the channel to reach all those guarantees. Configure back to the state, create new institutions, We decide how to govern. Dismantle this state of domes and private landowners, Latinamericanists build another with prospects, with the aspiration of a regional unit with all the peoples of Central America, with which we are a divided by artificial borders of imperialism and local business sectors country. we will do all this to ensure political system of democracy of the majority, no privileged castes, with revocable mandates. We will take all. as Sovereign, conquer all freedoms. It is the radical response, which it occupies the radical way that the regime has repressed us.
A Free and Sovereign Constituent Assembly, engage in dialogue a new constitution to be validated by the people. Acuerpada by the biggest mobilizations that Nicaragua has ever had, to monitor very closely the proposals of the constituent members and. This meeting must be convened and elected by the population, it is imperative to form an electoral institute officials with unquestioned ethics and expertis and verifiable, no involvement with the dictatorship and its crimes. And call general elections, free and secret. Persons to stand as candidates for the Constituent, They must have real and legitimate representation and backing of which sector is part. All sectors that have been historically oppressed must form the Constituent Assembly, women, peasantry, students, indigenous communities, African descent, and territorial and neighborhood expressions, including representing primary victims of the dictatorship Ortega Murillo. And there begins the rebuilding of our Nicaragua.
Output Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo is impregnable. So the bet is to the letter "negotiation" has the people: Mobilization. It is our duty to direct all the forces that have organized and articulated to strengthen and support the mobilization of the population. The anniversary of the April uprising approaches, and the desire to go and take back the streets can be cut in the air of Nicaragua; It knows this dictatorship and the regime, for that reason the "negotiation" with the business sector and redoubled speed ACJD.
In this point, It is essential to the workings of platforms such as the University Coordinator for Democracy and Justice (Cudj), and the Articulation of Social Movements (MS). The first one shaped platform 11 university organized expressions bases, full diversity, with own university agenda; the second is a joint organized movements and expressions born in the context of insurrection, and civil society organizations who have come hand in hand with the people to fight all attacks that has historically beaten the Nicaraguan population. Both present in a huge amount of land nationwide, with experience in their bodies to participate, organize and conduct social mobilization, and they have introduced radical proposal to the objectives which collectively have been proposed.
It is for this nature is a duty of such platforms and all other organizations and territorial expressions, student and sectoral; First, report to the population the pact between domes found in the Government, Business Sector, and the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy, declare illegitimate representatives of the people's interests; and also ignore this "negotiation" and that any of, while ORMU dictatorship remains in power; we must move with all forces to strengthen the organization for mobilization, and propose a comprehensive program built collectively from and to the bases. A program that responds to the historical demands of the coveted freedoms by all oppressed sectors.
Lead to profound social transformation we need and desired
Here is where the need to build a political tool to prepare to govern and lead the political transformation arises, economic and social development of Nicaragua; no private company, without interference Vatican, no murderers or rapists human rights. Crucially, this tool arises from the unity and resolve of all those who put the body, all sectors repressed in April, and historically oppressed by the regime and not the current participants and validators of dialogue with the dictatorship.
Elmer Rosales
Nicaraguan student, exiled. Member of the University Coordinator for Democracy and Justice
reproduced from Anticapitalist Network
3.3.2019
