Nicaragua: The LIS Central American Forum was held

A 5 years of social rebellion in Nicaragua, that put the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo on the ropes, the LIS together with its Nicaraguan section Anticapitalist Alternative, convened a Forum held this 22 of April. The activity is part of the resolutions voted at the recent II World Congress of the International Socialist League.

The event had a very representative panel:

 *Yader Parajon, young activist recently released from prison by the dictatorship and exiled in the US.

*Lludely Aburto, former FSLN militant and student leader during the revolution 1979 and now exiled in Costa Rica and member of the Articulation of Social Movements.

*María José Lechado, Nicaraguan migrant in Costa Rica and member of the PRT of that country.

*Mohamed Pacheco, exiled Nicaraguan student and activist of Alternativa Anticapitalista, LIS-Nicaragua.

Through a first round of exhibitions, The speakers presented different aspects of debates that are very present in the Nicaraguan and Central American fighting vanguard.. What happened that Nicaragua and Central America were epicenters of revolutions in the 1970s? 1980 and today it has regimes like that of Nicaragua or Bukele in El Salvador? Why did the process not advance in that period?? What were the main conclusions of the April rebellion? 2018? Why the subsequent brutal repression and consolidation of a capitalist dictatorship regime with Stalinist methods in Nicaragua? What tasks does the internationalist and critical left have in view of this panorama??

From Yader's testimony and the prison he suffered for more than a year in his last confinement (He was imprisoned three times), going through the disappointment with the Sandinista project that Lludely narrated, and because of the historical criticism of the limitations of the FSLN that María José raised, the meeting had a moment of high emotionality and deep political reflections. In all the interventions, the powerful role of the International Socialist League was recognized from the first minute of the rebellion., as in the entire subsequent process, insisting on the need to ratify that course. The closing by Mohamet, placing the tasks of international solidarity in debate based on the balance of the International Commission that headed the LIS and that played a role of great regional impact just a few months ago, and that contributed to the liberation of more than 200 political prisoners, among whom was Yader. and at the same time, fundamentally, He highlighted the need to build a political tool in Nicaragua and Central America with a revolutionary socialist and internationalist perspective., rounded off an activity followed with great avidity by militants, supporters and activities from different countries. There were greetings from Costa Rica, from Brazil, from different regions of Argentina, from Dominican Republic, from Paraguay, The Savior, from Brazil, of the Spanish State, among others.

The final round raised the challenge of resuming new initiatives of international solidarity for the freedom of the political prisoners still held by the Ortega-Murillo regime and for the definitive fall of that dictatorship..

Definitely, a positive initiative, followed by hundreds of participants between the virtual and bimodal modality with face-to-face meetings who in different places convened themselves to attend the event.